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Jakarta
ends stand-off on bird flu vaccines--Indonesia's health minister accused the US
of trying to use bird flu samples to create a biological weapon.
24 Feb 2008 Samples of bird flu virus are at the centre of an extraordinary
political battle in Indonesia, as arguments rage over the profits from
potentially life-saving vaccines. After receiving an assurance that
Jakarta would have access to affordable vaccines, Indonesia finally
sent 12 samples to a World Health Organisation (WHO) laboratory last
Friday after hanging on to them since August. The situation worsened
last week after it emerged that Siti Fadilah Supari, Indonesia's health
minister, had accused the United States in a new book she has written
of trying to use
the material to create a biological weapon.

US
involved in bird flu conspiracy: Indonesia 20 Feb 2008 (Transcript
from AM, Australia's ABC.) Peter Cave: Indonesia's
Health Minister has suggested that the United States may be involved
in a conspiracy to use the bird flu virus to develop biological weapons.
The extraordinary allegation is included in a new book, endorsed by
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, which describes Indonesia’s fight
to assert its ownership of its virulent strains of avian influenza.
Concerns over that issue prompted Indonesia last year to stop sharing
virus samples with the World Health Organization as Jakarta correspondent
Geoff Thompson reports. Dr Supari expresses alarm at WHO laboratories
sharing bird flu virus data with the United States national laboratory
in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where nuclear weapons are developed.

Indonesia
accuses US of bird flu plot 20 Feb 2008 The Indonesian Health
Minister has said the United States and the World Health Organisation
are part of a global conspiracy to profit from the spread of bird flu
and the US may use samples to produce biological weapons... In the book,
Dr Supari writes that WHO laboratories forwarded influenza viruses
to Western companies so they could profit by selling vaccines back to
developing countries. Some Indonesian samples
had been sent to a US Defence Department laboratory, Dr Supari
says, adding that "some of our seed viruses had been in a laboratory
known as a facility developing biological weapons in a superpower country".

Migratory
birds not main source of bird flu: WWF 16 Feb 2008 Wild migratory
birds may suffer from Avian Influenza ('bird flu'), but they are not
the main source of the disease’s outbreak in Pakistan, according to
a study statement issued by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Lahore chapter
on Friday.

CDC
says influenza B strain doesn't match vaccine 08 Feb 2008 The
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that
most circulating influenza B viruses tested so far this season don't
match this year's vaccine, signaling that two of the three vaccine components
are off-target.

'Mysterious'
bird flu baffles Indonesian scientists 06 Feb 2008 Indonesian
scientists and officials said they were baffled by the "mysterious"
behaviour of the [US
Army] bird flu virus here, which has already claimed nine lives
this year in the world's worst-hit nation. Indonesia has reported 126
cases of H5N1 bird flu, 103 of them fatal, since 2005.

Turkey
detects bird flu virus in poultry 03 Feb 2008 Turkey detected
bird flu virus in dead chickens found late last month in the northern
part of the country after it had started culling poultry due to bird
flu suspicions, the Agriculture Ministry said on Sunday.

Top-secret
Livermore germ lab opens --Scientists developing 'countermeasures'
for bubonic plague, anthrax, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Q fever,
tularemia, brucellosis or undulant fever; researching flu,
tuberculosis and SARS 02 Feb 2008 A high-security laboratory where
deadly microbes are being grown by scientists seeking defenses against
terrorist attacks began operating in Livermore last week without public
announcement, and opponents said Friday that they will go to federal
court in an effort to close the facility down. The facility is known
as a Biosafety-level 3 laboratory where... more than 40 potentially
lethal disease-causing bacteria, viruses and fungi are stored inside.

Bird
flu spreads in Bangladesh, port city on alert 03 Feb 2008 Bird
flu has spread to three more districts of Bangladesh, the livestock
department said on Sunday, taking the number of affected districts to
more than half of the country's 64 districts.

India
isolates 26 people as bird flu spreads in Asia 01 Feb 2008 India
has put 26 people in isolation with bird flu symptoms and hundreds more
people are being monitored, officials said on Friday as Pakistan and
Thailand reported outbreaks of bird flu in poultry.

USDA
Bird Flu Plan Needs Test [LOL, I'm sure they do! Halliburton, KBR,
Monsanto, and Gilead
Sciences want a dry run, so that they can secure their billion-dollar
contracts in the aftermath of a bird flu outbreak or a Bush bioterror
attack - for detention centers, quarantines and mandatory vaccines.
The same players who 'rebuilt' New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are
still sitting at the table, poised for Bush's pandemic party. --LRP]
01 Feb 2008 The Agriculture Department cannot ensure it will respond
effectively to a bird flu outbreak because it has not tested many of
the policies put in place as part of a national preparedness plan, an
inspector general's report said Friday... The federal government's plan
to prepare the country for avian influenza includes more than 300 tasks
[!] for various federal departments.

WHO
reports Tamiflu-resistant flu in U.S. and Canada 01 Feb 2008
The main flu virus circulating [created]
in the United States and Canada has shown "elevated resistance" to the
antiviral drug Tamiflu, in line with findings in parts of Europe, the
World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. A number of governments
have been stockpiling Tamiflu, made by Switzerland's Roche Holding Ag
and Gilead Sciences Inc of the United
States, for use as a first line of 'defense' in case bird flu sparks
a human influenza pandemic.

India:
Bird Flu Spread 'Alarming' 19 Jan 2008 India’s third outbreak
of avian flu among poultry is the worst it has faced, the World Health
Organization said. The chief minister of West Bengal State, which is
trying to cull 400,000 birds, called the virus’s spread "alarming."
New outbreaks were also reported this week in Iran and Ukraine.

Bird
flu: Matter of grave concern, says Buddha 19 Jan 2008 Admitting
that the bird flu situation in the state is a matter of grave concern,
West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Friday asked all
district and sub-divisional hospitals to set up special isolation wards
to monitor patients coming with symptoms of avian flu.

Bird
flu strain claims fifth swan 18 Jan 2008 A fifth swan at a sanctuary
in Dorset has tested positive for the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu,
environment department Defra has said. The first case of avian influenza
was found at the Abbotsbury Swannery, near Chesil Beach, on 10 January.

Fourth
swan tests positive for H5N1 bird flu in UK 16 Jan 2008 A fourth
swan in southern England has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain
of bird flu, Britain's farm ministry said on Wednesday. Last week, the
ministry confirmed that three wild swans at a bird sanctuary in Dorset
had died from the virus.

U.S.
pandemic plans call for military quarantines, forced vaccinations: ACLU
14 Jan 2008 U.S. policy in preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic
is veering dangerously toward a heavy-handed law-enforcement approach
[police state], the American Civil Liberties Union said
on Monday. The ACLU said it was worried that the plan called for military and police involvement in enforcing a quarantine.
"Pandemic planning today tends to emphasize mandatory vaccination
and forced treatment," the ACLU's Tania Simoncelli told a news conference.
"It also means that sick people are being treated as criminals and enemies
of the state rather than individuals in need of care." [See: DoD
to 'augment civilian law' during pandemic or bioterror attack
--Is Bush is getting ready to play the Bioterror Card? 11 May 2007.]

ACLU
Report: Government Must Abandon Misguided Approach to Pandemic Preparedness
(aclu.org) 14 Jan 2008 As fears of a flu pandemic have grown, the Bush
administration has pursued a misguided approach to pandemic preparation
that relies on a law enforcement/national security approach, rather
than a public health approach to the problem, and which exposes Americans
to unnecessary risk. That is the finding of an expert report
being released today by the American Civil Liberties Union at the National
Press Club in Washington, DC.

French
bird flu TV crew may face Niger death penalty -lawyer 22 Dec
2007 Authorities in Niger have charged two French journalists with colluding
with armed groups in the country's uranium-rich north, which could carry
the death penalty if they are convicted, their lawyer said on Saturday.
Thomas Dandois and Pierre Creisson are accused of violating the terms
of their media accreditation to film a report
about bird flu in the southern city of Maradi, instead travelling
to film rebel fighters in the country's Saharan north. [Gee, I wonder
what they stumbled upon?]

Poland
reports fresh outbreak of H5N1 bird flu 22 Dec 2007 Laboratory
tests have confirmed a fresh outbreak of deadly H5N1 avian flu in the
same area of northern Poland where the virus was discovered earlier
this month, PAP news agency said on Saturday.

Common
buzzard found dead in HK tests positive for H5N1 21 Dec 2007
The common buzzard that was found dead earlier on Hong Kong's largest
but thinly populated island tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird
flu virus, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said
Friday.

Bird
flu found on Polish farm birds 02 Dec 2007 Turkeys at two poultry
farms in central Poland have tested positive for the H5N1 strain of
bird flu, authorities said. It is the country's first reported case
of the deadly virus in domestic livestock.

Bird
flu spreads to 60 countries, pandemic risk still high: UN 29
Nov 2007 Bird flu in poultry and wild birds spread to 60 countries but
is entrenched only in six because of improved and faster responses,
experts said. Despite those strides, the risk of a worldwide human-to-human
pandemic remains as great today as it was when the hard-to-treat H5N1
flu strain first gained intense attention in mid-2005, said a new report
by Dr. David Nabarro, the UN official co-ordinating the global fight
against avian influenza, and World Bank officials. "We think it will
happen sometime but we don't know when or where," Nabarro said Thursday.
[Oh, that's an easy one: The US,
just before the 2008 'elections.']

Defra
unable to identify bird flu source 30 Nov 2007 An initial report
into the recent outbreak of deadly bird flu in Suffolk has been unable
to identify the source of the disease, the Department for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs said today. [Right, check your local US Army
lab for the source. See: Killer
flu recreated in the lab 07 Oct 2004 A US team added two genes
from a sample of the 1918 virus to a modern strain known to have no
effect on mice. Animals exposed to this composite were dying within
days of symptoms similar to those found in human victims of the 1918
pandemic.]

Bird
flu confirmed in Saudi Arabia 22 Nov 2007Saudi
Arabia's agriculture ministry said on Wednesday that more than three
million birds have been culled or are in the process of being destroyed
following an outbreak of bird flu. The ministry said new cases of bird
flu had been detected in farms west and south of Riyadh.

Birds
slaughtered after bird flu suspected on new British farm 21
Nov 2007 Poultry were being slaughtered at another British farm after
a suspected outbreak of bird flu, the government said Wednesday. The
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the site was
within a surveillance zone set up after the disease was confirmed on
a nearby farm earlier this month. Two outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 strain
of bird flu have been confirmed in eastern England.

Bird
flu outbreak is deadly strain 13 Nov 2007 An outbreak of bird
flu on a Suffolk farm is the deadly H5N1 form of the virus, Defra confirmed
today, while the government warned that the disease may have already
spread.

Bird
flu confirmed on farm in east England 12 Nov 2007 An outbreak
of bird flu has been confirmed at a turkey farm in eastern England although
the exact strain is not yet known, Britain's farm ministry said on Monday.

Flu
Lab Set to Open for 1918 Pandemic Virus Reconstruction --Ebola research
may resume, pending outcome of appeal 28 Oct 2007 UW-Madison 's
$12.5 million Institute for Influenza Viral Research, nearing completion
at University Research Park, will have a collection of safety and security
features the university hasn't seen before. Virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka
plans to study several kinds of flu viruses in the institute -- including
H5N1, the bird flu virus circulating in Asia, and a reconstructed
version of the 1918 flu virus, which killed some 50 million
people when it spread worldwide. ...Jan Klein, UW-Madison 's biological
safety officer, said the university may appeal the NIH 's ruling halting
the Ebola work.

650,000
would die from bird flu, says Govt. 28 Oct 2007 It is a grisly
scenario: 650,000 deaths, with bodies piled up in shipping containers
before being buried in mass graves all over the country. That is the
nightmare envisaged by the Government in what it describes as the "very
likely" event of a bird flu pandemic. The alarming prediction is contained
in a confidential Home Office document drawn up to help councils and
other organisations deal with a catastrophic outbreak of the deadly
H5N1 strain of the virus... Other proposals contained in the paper include
suspending exhumation powers and coroner's juries and cancelling inquests
into deaths from natural causes in prisons.

Bird
Flu May Be on 'Silent' March in Europe, UN Agency Warns 25 Oct
2007 Avian influenza, the virus that has led to the deaths of millions
of birds and more than 200 people since 2003, may be more prevalent
than previously thought in Europe as it goes undetected in waterfowl.
[Yes, bird flu is on a 'silent march,' and will reach its destination
just in time for Bush to implement martial law for the 2008 'elections.']

DoD
to carry out 'military missions' during pandemic, WMD attack
By Lori Price 23 Oct 2007 On Thursday, the Bush administration issued
a directive which 'establishes a National Strategy for Public Health
and Medical Preparedness (Strategy), which builds upon principles set
forth in Biodefense for the 21st Century (April 2004) and will
transform our national approach to protecting the health of the American
people against [with] all disasters.' HOMELAND
SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/HSPD-21 states that within one
year of the directive's date, 'the Secretaries of Health and Human Services
and Defense, in coordination with the Secretaries of Veterans Affairs
and Homeland Security, shall establish an academic Joint Program for
Disaster Medicine and Public Health housed at a National Center for
Disaster Medicine and Public Health at the Uniformed Services University
of the Health Sciences... Department of Health and Human Services
and Department of Defense authorities will be used to carry out respective
civilian and military missions within this joint program.'

Troops,
key doctors to get first U.S. bird flu shots 23 Oct 2007 Deployed
military troops, emergency workers, pregnant women and children will
be among the first to get scarce vaccinations if a pandemic strain of
flu breaks out, U.S. officials said. A long-awaited report to be issued
on Tuesday lays out who would be first in line to get vaccinated against
[with] H5N1 bird flu or any other
strain of pandemic influenza.

Key
Viral Change Could Help Bird Flu Spread 04 Oct 2007 U.S. scientists
say they've spotted [created] a crucial step the deadly H5N1
bird flu virus must take in order to spread easily in humans. So far,
the virus has not developed the ability to spread easily among humans.
Now, researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madison virologist Yoshihiro
Kawaoka have 'pinpointed' a single change in a viral protein that helps
H5N1 infect the cells of the upper respiratory system in mammals.

U.S.
labs mishandling deadly germs --Confidential reports submitted
to federal regulators describe 'accidents' involving anthrax, bird
flu virus, monkeypox and plague-causing bacteria at 44 labs in
24 states. 02 Oct 2007 American laboratories handling the world's
deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents
and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing steadily
as more labs across the country are approved to do the work. The documented
cases reflect poorly on procedures and oversight at high-security labs,
some of which work with organisms and poisons so dangerous that illnesses
they cause have no cure.

Financial
Institutions to Undergo Pandemic Flu Response Test 24 Sep 2007
Don't be alarmed if your local bank teller is looking a bit sickly over
the next three weeks. It is only a cyber-illness. Hundreds of banks
and other financial institutions are participating in the largest test
of its kind ever conducted to ensure the nation's financial system can
keep functioning in case of an outbreak of pandemic flu [Bush
bioterrorism].

China
confirms bird flu outbreak 18 Sep 2007 China has confirmed an
outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus among ducks in an outlying district
of the southern city of Guangzhou.

Bush
Greases Skids For UN Pandemic Power Grab --Bestselling author
[Jerome Corsi] "wouldn't put it past" Globalists to release virus to
capitalize on control By Paul Joseph Watson 02 Sep 2007 The World
Health Organization and the U.N. have been handed complete control over
response procedures in the event of a pandemic outbreak in the U.S.
after an agreement was signed by President [sic] Bush at the recent
SPP meeting that bypasses congressional approval.

Bird
flu shock 31 Aug 2007 Up to 650,000 people could die in the
UK if there was a worldwide outbreak of human or avian flu. A Home Office
report outlines emergency plans for mass burials and morgues in refrigerated
trucks.

Flu
pandemic 'could kill 650,000' 31 Aug 2007 Up to 650,000 people
could die in England and Wales if there were a flu pandemic, according
to a Home Office document that outlines plans for dealing with an outbreak,
including measures for mass burials and refrigerated storage of bodies

Bush's
SPP power grab sets stage for military to manage flu threats
--U.S. under U.N. law in health emergency By Jerome R. Corsi 28 Aug
2007 The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America summit
in Canada released a plan that establishes U.N. law along with regulations
by the World Trade Organization and World Health Organization as supreme
over U.S. law during a pandemic and sets the stage for militarizing
the management of continental health emergencies. The "North
American Plan for Avian & Pandemic Influenza" was finalized at the
SPP summit last week in Montebello, Quebec. At the same time, the U.S.
Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, has created
a webpage dedicated to avian flu and has been running
exercises in preparation for the possible use of U.S. military forces
in a continental domestic emergency involving avian flu or pandemic
influenza.

Combatting
Avian Flu in North America: The North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic
Influenza 17 Aug 2007 The North American Plan for Avian and
Pandemic Influenza was announced by the Presidents of the United States
and Mexico and the Prime Minister of Canada on August 21, 2007 in Montebello,
Canada, at the North American Leaders Summit. The Plan was developed
as part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
(SPP). The SPP is a trilateral effort launched in March 2005 to increase
security and enhance prosperity in Canada, Mexico and the United States
through greater cooperation and information sharing.

NORTHCOM
Prepares for Possible Pandemic 01 Feb 2006 U.S. Northern Command
recently hosted representatives from more than 40 international, federal
and state agencies for an exercise designed to provoke discussion and
determine what governmental actions, including military support [martial
law, KBR
detention cetnres] , would be necessary in the event of an influenza
pandemic in the United States... "NORTHCOM will not be running the show
in the event of a pandemic," said Dave Wilkins, the NORTHCOM exercise
facilitator. "We will be taking guidance and requests from other agencies,
such as the Department of Homeland Security, via the secretary of defense."

Study
confirms 2006 human-human spread of bird flu 28 Aug 2007 A mathematical
analysis has confirmed that H5N1 avian influenza spread from person
to person in Indonesia in April, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
They said they had developed a tool to run quick tests on disease outbreaks
to see if dangerous epidemics or pandemics may be developing [in Bush's
labs].

"No-Evacuation
Required During a Bird Flu Outbreak"--Chlorine
Dioxide Gas to Be Used to Create 'Virus-Free' Areas--Experimental
data and practical applications of chlorine dioxide 'against' pandemic
influenza to be presented at international bird flu summit in the US.
(New-Fields) 27 Aug 2007 At the 5th International Bird Flu Summit organized
by New-Fields
Exhibition Inc., Dr. Norio Ogata of the Japanese Taiko Pharmaceutical
Co., Ltd. is to present the company’s experimental data and practical
applications of chlorine dioxide 'against' pandemic influenza. The product
to be launched uses chlorine dioxide gas to create virus-free living
spaces.

Now, what's interesting about New-Fields? ('We
find new-fields for you.') New-Fields, uniting and marketing corpora-terrorists
who are trying to start (and profit from) an avian flu pandemic, are
also actually hosting the Iraqi
Oil & Gas Technology Conference in Istanbul, Turkey, 5-6 September
2007. (New-Fields) It has been estimated that with its natural resources
Iraq has the potential to earn between $10 billion and $15 billion over
the next few years. The Iraqi oil industry faces three distinct phases
of development... The immediate task is restoring historical capacity
which could require an investment of $5-10 billion and take 18 to 24
months. This work could be carried out under the auspices of an occupation
regime... The second phase is developing prospects already found, raising
capacity significantly. Cost is estimated at $40-80 billion, with a
lead-time of seven to 10 years, depending upon the scope of the program.
This work would need a legitimate government
to assign new contracts... The third phase would be new exploration...
and that also would require a legitimate government
to negotiate fresh exploration rights. Iraq also has a substantial natural
gas potential that could be used for industrial and power generation
purposes. [People need to question the possible links between those
running/managing (mismanaging) and profiting from the Iraq war and those
who are poised to run/manage (mismanage) and profit from an avian
flu pandemic. --LRP]

Germany
to enforce buffer zone around bird flu farm 27 Aug 2007 The
European Commission and Germany on Monday agreed to implement a 15-kilometre
(10-mile) buffer zone around a Bavarian farm after the discovery of
the highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 bird flu, an EU spokesman said.

Deadly
bird flu found in German poultry farm 25 Aug 2007 An outbreak
of deadly bird flu [highly pathogenic H5N1 strain] has been identified
in a southern German poultry farm, a spokeswoman for Bavaria's environment
ministry said on Saturday.

Study
finds key markers for bird flu change 21 Aug 2007 Researchers
have found some of the changes that a flu virus needs to become a deadly
pandemic strain, and said on Tuesday the H5N1 avian influenza virus
has so far made only a few of them. [No worries --the Bush bioterror
team is *working hard* to get the avian flu pandemic party started!
See: Making
Killer Flu 12 Jun 2007 CDC scientists swap genes between bird
flu and human strains to 'plot the path of' [*create*] a possible pandemic
and Killer
flu recreated in the lab 07 Oct 2004.]

Roche
Joins the 5th International Bird Flu Summit as a Sponsor --Joins
three other elite companies as one of the Summit's Platinum Sponsors
(New-Fields)
21 Aug 2007 (Washington, DC) New-Fields Exhibitions announces the inclusion
of F. Hoffman-La Roche, a leading healthcare [pharma-terrorism] company,
among the platinum sponsors of the 5th International Bird Flu Summit
(IBFS) to be held on September 27 and 28 this year in Nevada USA. The
2-day event will cover an integrated approach to the bird flu threat
and will have discussions on pandemic prevention, preparedness, response,
and recovery [corpora-terrorism, profiteering and martial law].
About New-Fields Exhibitions: New Fields Exhibitions, Inc. is a leading
emerging markets and business information provider. With offices in
Washington, DC and overseas, the company provides marketing services
in the areas of construction, energy, oil & gas, telecommunications
and health care.

Bush
poised to play the bioterror card; corpora-terrorists poised to make
a *killing*:Government
secures £155m bird flu vaccines 17 Aug 2007 Britain has moved
to secure supplies of vaccines to counter a possible human influenza
pandemic sparked by bird flu, by signing deals worth £155m in total
with GlaxoSmithKline and Baxter International of the US. Under the four-year
deals, GSK and Baxter International will together supply 120 million
doses of their pandemic flu vaccines as soon as the strain is identified
[?] and made available by the World Health Organisation.

£155m
flu vaccine deal signed 16 Aug 2007 The Government has agreed
a £155.4 million contract for a flu vaccine in the event of a pandemic.
The Department of Health, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Baxter Healthcare
signed the four-year deal, which would see the firms supply a vaccine
as soon as a pandemic strain was notified by the World Health Organisation
(WHO).

Pandemic
Influenza Medical Surge Plan Exercise Set for July 24 20 Jul
2007 (AL) State Health Officer Dr. Donald Williamson said, "Preparing
our state for the possibility of a global influenza pandemic is a huge
responsibility, and it is one which depends on cooperation of everyone
involved to be successful." This one-day exercise will simulate a situation
in which large numbers of citizens are becoming ill from influenza.

U.S.
will detain those suspected of harboring bird flu virus 18 Jul
2007 More than a year after President [sic] Bush unveiled a plan for
coping with a pandemic flu outbreak, the federal government still has
limited capacity to detect a disease outbreak and track its progress
across the country... The government will try to limit the number of
arriving people who might be infected with the virus and detain
those suspected of harboring the virus, Dr. Rajeev Venkayya,
special assistant to the president for biodefense, said.

Non-pathogenic
strain of bird flu virus found, could turn pathogenic[by
the Bush bioterror team] 17 Jul 2007 The existence of a non-pathogenic
strain of the virus causing bird flu has been confirmed in the state
according to knowledgeable sources, although state officials are tightlipped
about the whole affair... The officials only said that no pathogenic
strain of the virus has detected yet, but were mum about the presence
of a non-pathogenic strain.

Germany
raises bird flu alert to "high" 06 Jul 2007 The German authorities
on Thursday raised the alert for bird flu from "moderate" to "high"
after 38 more wild birds were tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain
in eastern Germany. The birds were among the 100 found dead on an artificial
lane between the states of Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, German news
agency dpa reported.

France
says H5N1 bird flu virus confirmed in swans 05 Jul 2007 Tests
have confirmed that three swans found dead in eastern France were killed
by the H5N1 bird flu virus, the French agriculture ministry said on
Thursday, France's first cases of the disease in over a year.

USDA
Official to Discuss Pandemic Plans at Bird Flu Summit --Chief
veterinary officer to detail the actions the USDA is now taking to combat
bird flu outbreaks in the poultry industry—and those it will apply when
[not 'if,' but 'when'] a [US Army-generated] pandemic breaks out.
(New Fields)
03 Jul 2007 Dr. John Clifford, Deputy Administrator of the USDA-APHID
Veterinary Services program will discuss how his department works with
Homeland Security to prepare for, respond to, mitigate, and recover
from, a pandemic. Dr. Clifford will speak at the 5th International Bird
Flu Summit, to be held on September 27-28 at Las Vegas... Together with
the DHS, it [the USDA] coordinates the execution of state and local
pandemic response plans—only turning over the lead to the DHS when a
pandemic breaks out.

Gee,
looky here! The same 'people' who are conducting bird flu summits are
also holding Iraqi oil & gas summits! Iraqi
Oil & Gas Technology Conference --8th ReBuilding Iraq Conference
& Expo --Istanbul, Turkey 5-6 September 2007(New
Fields) 03 Apr 2007 The Iraqi oil industry faces three distinct
phases of development. Restoration --The immediate task is restoring
historical capacity which could require an investment of $5-10 billion
and take 18 to 24 months. This work could be carried out under the auspices
of an occupation regime. Developing Prospects --The second phase is
developing prospects already found, raising capacity significantly.
Cost is estimated at $40-80 billion... This work would need a legitimate
government to assign new contracts. New Exploration --The third phase
would be new exploration, for which Iraq immediately has little need,
and that also would require a legitimate government to negotiate fresh
exploration rights... There is a large potential for substituting gas
for oil in power generation. Finally, there is also a refinery and petrochemical
investment potential.

Bird
flu cases increase to six in Germany 26 Jun 2007 Germany confirmed
the H5N1 bird flu virus in three more wild birds in the southern state
of Bavaria on Monday, bringing the total infected cases to six since
last weekend.

New
tests on bird flu drug after teenagers' deaths --Trials will
look at whether Tamiflu causes delusions 20 Jun 2007 The reputation
of flu drug Tamiflu suffered a fresh blow yesterday when the Swiss pharmaceutical
company Roche and its Japanese partner announced new clinical trials
to establish whether there is a possible link between the antiviral
and dozens of deaths and injuries among Japanese teenagers. [See: Rumsfeld's
growing stake in Tamiflu 31 Oct 2005 Defense Secretary, ex-chairman
of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing.]

Bird
Flu Fears Reignited 19 Jun 2007 While the threat of a bird flu
pandemic continues to hang over the world, authorities in the United
Kingdom now believe a second strain of avian flu -- previously considered
of little human risk -- does indeed pose a real danger to people...
When new hens began dying between May 1 and May 17, health authorities
from both countries descended on the farm, testing the sick birds and
determining that the birds had H7N2 disease.

Malaysia
Quarantines Five Bird Flu Suspects
12 Jun 2007 At least five people have been quarantined in two Malaysian
hospitals after displaying symptoms of the bird flu virus, the health
minister said on Tuesday. Sixteen others who were also suspected of
being infected with the virus were quarantined and had tested negative.

Authorities
seeking those on flight 29 May 2007 A man with a rare and exceptionally
dangerous form of tuberculosis has been placed
in quarantine by the U.S. government[!] after possibly
exposing passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights earlier this
month, health officials said Tuesday. The infected man flew from Atlanta
to Paris on May 12 aboard Air France Flight 385. He returned to North
America on May 24 aboard Czech Air Flight 104 from Prague to Montreal.
The man then drove into the United States. He cooperated with authorities
after learning he had an unusually dangerous form of TB. He voluntarily
went to a hospital and is not facing prosecution, officials said. [See:
DoD
to 'augment civilian law' during pandemic or bioterror attackBy
Lori Price 11 May 2007 Is Bush is getting ready to play the Bioterror
Card?]

U.S.
Government Issues a Quarantine Order --CDC Order is First
Since 1963 29 May 2007 A man with a rare and exceptionally dangerous
form of tuberculosis has been placed in quarantine by the U.S. government
after possibly exposing passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights
earlier this month, health officials said Tuesday. This marks the first
time since 1963 that the government issued a quarantine order. The last
such order was to quarantine a patient with smallpox, according to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

DoD
to 'augment civilian law' during pandemic or bioterror attackBy
Lori Price 11 May 2007 Is Bush is getting ready to play the Bioterror
Card? The GOP cannot steal an inevitable Democratic landslide in November
2008. Will the Bush regime continue its illegitimate rule and empire
by implementing a full-blown police state, in the aftermath of an avian
flu pandemic or (Bush-engendered) bioterror attack?

'In
some ways the war game resembled the hit U.S. TV show '24.' U.S.
health agency stages bird flu war game 27 Apr 2007 A leading
U.S. health agency staged a war game this week to test its response
to one of the worst health emergencies it could imagine -- an outbreak
of avian flu on American soil. The exercise, which ended on Friday,
was designed to simulate how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
would marshal its resources, coordinate with other branches of government
and, crucially, reassure the public [lie]
while preparing it for a [US
engendered] possible pandemic. In some ways the war game resembled
the hit U.S. TV show [torture-fest] "24," with health officials
battling in real time to save the United States from imminent disaster,
though of course minus the violence[!]. Like
the Counter Terrorism Unit at the heart of "24," the CDC
used its Director's Emergency Operations Center... In
calculating whether to close the border,... These are the
facts on the ground: do our theoretical constructs hold," said Martin
Cetron, CDC director of the division of global migration and quarantine.
[Oh, during a (US
Army created pandemic) the US is going to 'close the borders?' The
US can't close the borders *now,* but they're going to close them in
the middle of a bird flu pandemic? Closing the borders will keep *us
in,* quarantined in KBR's
detention centers. --Lori Price]

Bird
Flu School Planning Summit Stresses Hands-On Training --The
May 21 summit tests resources against the toughest scenarios. Washington,
DC (New-Fields) 15 Apr 2007 The second Bird Flu School Planning Summit,
which will be launched on May 21 at the Hilton Garden Inn Raritan Center
in New Jersey, is meant to engage school administrators, teachers, parents,
and students in an intensive, hands-on training on how to prevent, prepare
for, respond to, and recover from a possible [DoD-engendered] bird flu
pandemic. Organized by New-Fields Exhibitions, the summit aims to encourage
all community members to engage in the fight against [sic] bird flu
and to prepare for a looming flu pandemic. [Here's where Bush's quarantines,
mandatory deadly vaccines and KBR-built detention centers are gonna'
come in handy --just before the 2008 'elections.' --LRP]

Grants
to Fund Bird Flu Battle 02 Apr 2007 The government's work to
'prevent' [foment] an influenza
pandemic took on a more academic look Monday when it selected six universities
and medical centers to help lead research efforts.

U
of M Awarded $22.5 Million NIH Contract to Study Avian Influenza
02 Apr 2007 The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
(NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today named
the University of Minnesota as one of six sites across the country that
will establish a Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance.

Huge
U.S. economic losses forecast in flu pandemic 22 Mar 2007 An
influenza pandemic on the scale of the 1918 "Spanish Flu" would inflict
$700 billion in economic losses in the United States and a 5.5 percent
GDP drop in a year, according to a report released on Thursday. Such
a pandemic could trigger the second-deepest U.S. economic recession
since World War Two, the report from the advocacy group Trust for America's
Health found. [Halliburton, KBR and Blackwater USA, however, will
make a *killing.* Count on it! The Bush regime is already taking
steps to get the pandemic party started. --LRP]

Health
alert over Tamiflu 21 Mar 2007 Japanese health officials issued
an alert over giving flu drug Tamiflu to teenagers on Wednesday as Myanmar
reported a further outbreak of bird flu in poultry. Tamiflu is regarded
as one of the main drugs effective against a bird flu pandemic, but
a series of cases, including teen suicides in Japan, have fuelled concern
the drug could induce psychiatric symptoms. [Oops! There goes Rumsfeld's
stock portfolio! See:Rumsfeld's
growing stake in Tamiflu 31 Oct 2005 Defense Secretary, ex-chairman
of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing.]

H5N1
kills rare eagle near Japan bird flu sites 19 Mar 2007 The H5N1
bird flu virus killed a rare species of eagle, captured within 75 km
(47 miles) of sites of three Japanese outbreaks of the virus among poultry
earlier this year, the environment ministry said on Monday.

Vaccines
are used to spread (not 'prevent') viruses:Bird
flu detected in vaccinated Egypt flocks - source 13 Mar 2007
Egypt has detected bird flu in chickens and ducks from reportedly vaccinated
flocks, an animal health official said on Tuesday. The official, who
closely follows bird flu in Egypt, said chickens and ducks from vaccinated
household flocks and on poultry farms had tested positive for the H5N1
bird flu virus this year in 12 locations, and eight of the infections
were detected this month.

Hold
on to your hats! From the 'people' who brought you the response
to Hurricane Katrina's blown levees:Homeland
Security Official Presents National Pandemic Plan This Week
--Associate Chief Medical Officer for Medical Readiness with the Office
of the Chief Medical Officer at the US Department of Homeland Security
outlines current national pandemic planning efforts this week at the
4th International Bird Flu Summit in Washington, DC. (New-Fields) 12
Mar 2007 Dr. Tilman Jolly, an emergency medicine specialist with the
US Department of Homeland Security, will present a talk on the current
status of America's national pandemic plan at the 4th International
Bird Flu Summit in Washington on March 14-15.

'I'm
almost using the flu pandemic as an excuse to prepare for a disaster.'Bird
flu drill held at senior center11 Mar 2007 (MA) Last November,
635 elderly people filed into the Worcester Senior Center to get their
annual flu shots. They were done in less than four hours. They
didn't know they were part of a simulation of what would
happen during a flu pandemic at one of Worcester’s nine emergency dispensing
sites.

CSIRO
bird flu lockdown 08 Mar 2007 Two Geelong lab technicians exposed
to bird flu will sit out the incubation danger period in virtual solitude
away from family and friends. Infectious disease specialists have told
them to stay isolated in home quarantine while a Department of Human
Services doctor monitors their health. Four investigations were launched
into the incident yesterday after the Geelong Advertiser reported that
workers were exposed to bird flu virus at CSIRO's Australian Animal
Health Laboratory in Moolap.

Bird
flu scientists isolated --Two scientists exposed to bird
flu after sharing a faulty lab-suit are being monitored while another
has been given the all-clear. 08 Mar 2007 (Geelong, AU) The trio
had been involved in an experiment[!?!] on ducks infected
with a South-East Asian strain of the avian flu when it was discovered
on Monday that an air filter in one of the protective suits was missing.

Bird
flu lab bungle 'no cause for alarm' 07 Mar 2007 Victoria's chief
health officer has moved to quell concerns over any potential bird flu
outbreak after three laboratory workers were exposed to the deadly disease.

Experts
urge big effort to make pandemic vaccines 05 Mar 2007 Top virologists
called on Monday for a greater effort in developing effective vaccines
against [with] a potential flu pandemic and warned that all contingency
plans would be in vain without them.

Scientists
to exhume diplomat's corpse for bird flu clues 05 Mar 2007 Scientists
plan to exhume within the next five months the body of a British diplomat
who died in 1919 of the Spanish flu, in a move they hope will provide
vital clues on how to fight [foment]
any future pandemic. Experts see strong parallels between the H5N1 bird
flu virus of today and the H1N1 virus of 1918/1919 which sparked the
Spanish flu that killed more than 50 million people.

"We're
after an intact body." Scientists
want to exhume corpse from 1919 Spanish flu pandemic[to
start a *new* pandemic] 28 Feb 2007 Scientists want to exhume
the body of a British diplomat [Sir Mark Sykes] who died of Spanish
flu during the 1919 pandemic in hopes of discovering clues to fight
[start] a possible future global outbreak sparked by the deadly H5N1
bird flu virus.

Body
in lead coffin may hold key to fighting pandemic --Go-ahead
for exhumation of politician and diplomat who died in 1918-19 epidemic
28 Feb 2007 A celebrated politician and diplomat [Sir Mark Sykes] who
played a key role in the carve-up of the Middle East after the first
world war is to be called on to perform a final service which could
reap incalculable benefits for 'global health' [the pharma-terrorists
and KBR's detention centers].

Kuwait
confirms 12 new bird flu cases 27 Feb 2007 Kuwait confirmed
on Tuesday 12 cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in turkeys
and chicken on Tuesday, but said the birds did not belong to poultry
farms.

Kuwait
on alert after bird flu detected 25 Feb 2007 Kuwait announced
on Sunday that it had detected the deadly strain of avian influenza
in poultry and birds and had shut the nation's only zoo, AFP reported.
The twenty cases of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza was detected in
birds, mainly falcons.

H5N1
bird flu confirmed in Afghanistan 24 Feb 2007 The presence of
the deadly strain of bird flu in eastern Nangarhar province has been
confirmed by Afghanistan's Health Ministry. [Now there are two plagues
in Afghanistan: bird flu and US terrorists.]

Now
in Moscow, bird flu continues extending its reach 20 Feb 2007
The outbreaks of avian flu that shut down farms and markets in the suburbs
of Moscow over the weekend are a sign that the virus is moving westward
along migratory bird routes, as it did last winter. The Russian authorities
confirmed Sunday that the H5N1 avian influenza virus had been found
on at least six farms within 50 kilometers, or 30 miles, of the capital.

Bird
flu company sales fall 40% 15 Feb 2007 The poultry company [Bernard
Matthews] at the centre of a bird flu crisis in Suffolk and Hungary
has seen its sales fall by up to 40%.

UK
and Hungarian bird flu "essentially identical" 13 Feb 2007 Tests
on H5N1 bird flu viruses found in Britain and Hungary showed they are
"essentially identical" and the most likely transmission route was from
poultry to poultry, Britain said on Tuesday.

No
evidence Hungary the source of H5N1 13 Feb 2007 Hungary's animal
health authorities have found no evidence that could show poultry or
poultry products from Hungary could have transmitted the H5N1 bird flu
virus to Britain, Chief Veterinarian Miklos Suth said. "According to
our knowledge today there is no such evidence," Suth said on Tuesday.
"It can almost be ruled out." [Right, it was likely from a US
Army lab.]

Bernard
Matthews firm could face prosecution over bird flu outbreak
12 Feb 2007 Lorry-loads of poultry products could have been transported
out of the British farm which suffered a major outbreak of bird flu,
the Government has admitted. An exclusion zone was put in place around
the Bernard Matthews plant in Holton when the deadly strain of H5N1
was identified last week. But a diplomatic row was brewing last night
between London and Budapest after Hungary said that tons of meat had
been sent from Holton to the central European country since the restrictions
were imposed.

Bird
flu farm continued exports 12 Feb 2007 Cooked turkey products
were exported from the Suffolk farm where bird flu was found after the
virus broke out. Some of that food was exported to Hungary - where it
is thought the UK outbreak could have originated.

Bird
Flu Reported in Pakistan Capital 10 Feb 2007 The deadly H5N1
stain of bird flu has been confirmed at a home in the Pakistani capital,
the third such case in about a week. [See: Killer
flu recreated in the lab 07 Oct 2004 Scientists have shown that
tiny changes to modern flu viruses could render them as deadly as the
1918 strain which killed millions. A US team
added two genes from a sample of the 1918 virus to a modern
strain known to have no effect on mice.]

Bird
flu tests for ill vet who helped tackle outbreak at turkey farm
07 Feb 2007 A vet who helped to tackle Britain's most serious bird flu
outbreak was admitted to hospital last night suffering from a respiratory
illness. It was confirmed the State Veterinary Service employee would
be tested for H5N1 avian flu. The vet fell ill after working at the
Bernard Matthews farm where the outbreak occurred in Suffolk.

Ministers
forced to defend handling of flu outbreak 06 Feb 2007 The Government
has defended its handling of the H5N1 avian flu outbreak in Suffolk
as scientists continue to investigate how the deadly virus penetrated
the supposedly bio-secure facility on a Bernard Matthews turkey farm.

Mystery
deepens over cause of Suffolk bird flu outbreak --Concern
over delay in identifying H5N1 05 Feb 2007 The government was last
night investigating possible links between the discovery of H5N1 avian
bird flu at a Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Suffolk and recent outbreaks
of the disease in Hungary.

Government
defends bird flu response 05 Feb 2007 The environment secretary,
David Miliband, today said he was satisfied that the response to the
Suffolk bird flu outbreak had been "rapid, well co-ordinated and appropriate".

World
braced for huge surge in bird flu cases 04 Feb 2007 The number
of cases of the deadly bird flu virus is increasing around the world
as scientists struggle to combat the disease that is now threatening
to jump species and infect humans. The news comes as Britain confirmed
its first ever case of H5N1 in a farm in Suffolk.

H5N1:
The deadly strain of bird flu is here. But we're told: Don't panic
--160,000 turkeys to be gassed; exclusion zone set up; virus likely
to spread 04 Feb 2007 The first major outbreak of bird flu to hit
Britain was confirmed yesterday, sparking fears that the virus will
spread throughout the country and prompting a cull of 160,000 possibly
infected birds.

Fatal
bird flu virus confirmed in Britain 03 Feb 2007 Tests have confirmed
that 2,600 turkeys at a Suffolk farm died from the H5N1 strain of bird
flu that can be fatal to humans. A restricted access zone of 3km and
a 10km surveillance zone will now be set up at the Bernard Matthews-owned
farm near Lowestoft, with the farm's remaining 160,000 turkeys to be
culled.

Bird
flu outbreak on English farm is H5N1 03 Feb 2007 An outbreak
of bird flu on a farm run by Europe's biggest turkey manufacturer Bernard
Matthews is the highly pathogenic H5N1 version of the virus which can
kill humans, the European Commission said on Saturday.

'We
have to be prepared for a Category 5 pandemic.'U.S.
Issues Guidelines in Case of Flu Pandemic 01 Feb 2007 The federal
government today issued new pandemic flu guidelines to states and cities.
"We have to be prepared [build] for a Category 5 pandemic,"
said Dr. Martin Cetron, director of global migration and quarantine
for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in releasing the
guidelines. The guidelines did not suggest using the military to enforce
quarantines, as Dictator Bush said he might do when he first mentioned
avian flu in 2005.

In
outbreak drill, CDC readies for the 'Big One'01 Feb 2007 (Atlanta)
A flu pandemic drill involved close to 300 CDC employees and was designed
to run over a 24-hour period, from Wednesday to Thursday. Most of the
action was at CDC’s emergency operations center. The drill was designed
and run by MPRI, an Atlanta consulting company led by retired military
officers. The CDC is paying the company $7 million for its work on the
drill, future exercises and some planning work. [Bush will likely
'go live' with the actual pandemic in 2008, before the 'elections.']

New
bird-flu plan advises when to close schools 01 Feb 2007 Future
disease pandemics will be scored in the United States much like hurricanes,
with the most severe triggering school closings and changes in the workplace,
under federal guidelines issued on Thursday. They are the first detailed
advice for what states and communities should do before a vaccine is
available to control [foment] a flu pandemic, which global health authorities
fear could come at any time[Yeah,
but most likely October 2008, when Bush will declare martial law, stuff
protesters in KBR
detention centres and postpone 'elections.' --LRP]

"Isolations,
quarantines and other 'Draconian public health measures'"Feds'
new flu plan to raise fear factor 31 Jan 2007 The federal government
will announce two new initiatives tomorrow aimed at warning the public
on a potential [US-engineered]
flu pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created
multiple television ads encouraging Americans to learn exactly what
a massive flu outbreak would entail. It also has established new guidelines
for public health measures should millions of Americans contract influenza,
which will include isolations, quarantines and other "Draconian public
health measures," warned Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of the National
Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Mailman School
of Public Health. [See: Scientists
Recreate 1918 Flu and See Parallels to Bird Flu18 Jan 2007
In 2005, U.S. Army scientists reconstructed
Spanish flu virus by extracting genetic fragments from the
bodies of victims exhumed from the Alaskan permafrost.]

Indonesia
May Declare Bird Flu a National Disaster 31 Jan 2007 Indonesia's
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono may declare bird flu a national disaster,
enabling the government to set aside money from its budget to combat
the virus that has killed at least 63 Indonesians.

Nigeria
reports its first cases of bird flu in humans 31 Jan 2007 Bird
flu has claimed its first human victim in Africa's most-populous nation,
killing a young Nigerian woman due to graduate from university and be
married this year, officials and the victim's fiance said Wednesday.

Russian
scientists 'alarmed' as millions of birds begin falling from world's
skies 26 Jan 2007 An alarming series of reports from the Russian
Academy of Medical Sciences Influenza Research Institute are reporting
today that millions of avian species have succumbed, while in flight,
to a rapidly evolving virus linked to the deadly H5N1 Bird Flu variant.
Doctor Scientist Oleg Kiselyov, the head of the Influenza Research Institute,
states in these reports that a nematode parasite belonging to the 'Superfamily
Subuluroidea' has now become a carrier of a 'mutated'
H5N1 Bird Flu Virus with 'sub strains' never seen before.

Russia
finds H5N1 bird flu strain in southern yards 29 Jan 2007 Russia
has recorded its first cases this year of the highly pathogenic H5N1
strain of bird flu in dead domestic birds, the country's animal and
plant health agency said on Monday. Rosselkhoznadzor said in a statement
the virus was detected in dead birds found in three domestic yards in
the Krasnodar region of southern Russia.

Lockheed
to Support CDC Terrorism-Response Effort 29 Jan 2007 Lockheed
Martin of Bethesda won a five-year, $135 million contract from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention to support the agency's office for
coordinating terrorism preparation [They're preparing
it, alright!] and emergency response. Lockheed Martin also will
provide communications, training, planning, logistics, administrative,
operations and IT support for the Emergency Operations Center, which
is the agency's focus when responding to public
health emergencies, disease outbreaks and investigations.

Scientists
tighten security over germ terror threat --MI5 issues warning
to universities and labs 25 Jan 2007 Britain’s laboratories have
been ordered to strengthen security on stocks of more than 100 deadly
viruses and bacteria after an MI5 warning that 'Islamic terrorists'
[US bioterrorists] are training in germ warfare. The biological
agents include polio, rabies, tuberculosis and avian
flu. Scientists and laboratory staff in universities, hospitals
and pharmaceutical companies who deal with agents will have to be vetted
by police, and their laboratories will be checked by government safety
inspectors... The crackdown comes after MI5 privately warned the Foreign
and Commonwealth Office that 'al-Qaeda' was
actively recruiting scientists. [But as we know, and as
the CLG has been documenting for two years, it is the US Army that is
reconstructing
the deadly 1918 flu, to foment bioterror. The U.S. is going to engineer
and unleash the pandemic and then blame 'al-Qaeda.' --LRP]

Bush
preparing to play
the bioterror card and declare martial law in time for the 2008
'elections:' U.S.
not scared enough of bird flu, Senate told 24 Jan 2007 Bird
flu poses as big a threat to the world as ever, and people need to worry
about it more, U.S. senators and health leaders agreed on Wednesday.
The H5N1 avian flu virus could cause a human pandemic at any time, killing
perhaps millions, yet preparations are slow, they told a Senate hearing.
[See: Scientists
Recreate 1918 Flu and See Parallels to Bird Flu--In 2005, U.S. Army scientists reconstructed Spanish flu virus by
extracting genetic fragments from the bodies of victims exhumed from
the Alaskan permafrost. 18 Jan 2007]

Bird
Flu Reappears in EU 25 Jan 2007 Bird flu has reappeared in the
EU as the European Commission confirmed on Wednesday (24 January) that
dead geese in Hungary were contaminated with the highly virulent H5
strain.

U.N.:
Bird flu outbreak alert 23 Jan 2007 The U.N. Food and Agriculture
Organization is warning nations, particularly in East Asia and Africa,
to be vigilant for outbreaks of bird flu. New cases of the avian flu
virus have been 'found' in China, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Nigeria,
South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam.

Concern
as revived 1918 flu virus kills monkeys --Questions raised
over safety of revived microbe. 17 Jan 2007 The 1918 influenza virus,
which killed some 50 million people worldwide, has proved fatal to macaques
infected in a laboratory. The study follows Nature's controversial publication
of the virus's sequence in 2005, alongside a paper in Science that described
the recreation of the virus from
a corpse and its potency in mice... "The pathogenesis is interesting,"
Michael Gale, a virologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center, says. "But the key question is: how
was it spread so efficiently?"[LOL, Bush is poised to
play the bioterror card, declare martial law, and have the GOP steal
the 2008 'elections.']

Scientists
Recreate 1918 Flu and See Parallels to Bird Flu--In 2005,
U.S. Army scientists reconstructed Spanish flu virus by extracting genetic
fragments from the bodies of victims exhumed from the Alaskan permafrost.
18 Jan 2007 Scientists infected monkeys with a virus that caused
the 1918-19 influenza pandemic and said in the Jan. 18 issue of the
journal Nature that it caused an illness like
that suffered by patients with the bird flu now spreading in Asia.

Scientists
recreate 1918 flu virus[Why?]
17 Jan 2007 The virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic triggered
an overwhelming immune response that swamped the lungs of macaque monkeys
— the first primates deliberately infected with the Spanish flu virus,
Canadian and American scientists reported Wednesday. The research, published
in the journal Nature, involved an ambitious project to painstakingly
recreate the 1918 virus — only the second time this feat has been achieved.
In 2005 scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control made history
by becoming the first team to recreate the virus. Yoshihiro Kawaoka,
a leading influenza scientist working at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, built each of the virus's eight genes from scratch, using genetic
blueprints housed in a public access database... The
recreated virus was then used to infect seven macaques housed in a Level
4 laboratory in Winnipeg — the highest level of biosecurity available.
[Bush is poised to play the bioterror card, impose martial law, stuff
any dissenters into KBR detention centres and invade any oil-bearing
countries for Cheney Halliburton, unmolested. --LRP]

Bird
Flu Takes Flight 18 Jan 2007 Winter in the Northern Hemisphere
means one chilling prospect for global health officials: it's bird-flu
season. Nine countries have announced outbreaks in recent weeks, and
a replay of 2006--when H5N1 killed 80 people and spread to the Middle
East and Africa--could well be on the way.

Bird
flu in Egypt moderately Tamiflu-resistant--WHO 18 Jan 2007 Two
people who died of bird flu in Egypt last month had a strain of the
H5N1 virus which has shown "moderate" resistance to the frontline antiviral
Tamiflu, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.

Bird
flu detected in Japan identified as H5N1 16 Jan 2007 Tests have
confirmed that bird flu detected in chickens in southern Japan was the
virulent H5N1 strain that has been blamed for more than 160 human deaths
worldwide, the Japanese Agricultural Ministry said Tuesday.

Bird
flu feared at western Japan poultry farm 11 Jan 2007 Approximately
750 chickens have died at a western Japan poultry farm [in the town
of Kiyotake in western Miyazaki prefecture (state)] in what authorities
fear may be a bird flu outbreak, national and local authorities said
late Thursday.

China
confirms human bird flu case 10 Jan 2007 A Chinese farmer has
contracted the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the country's first human case
in months, leading to questions about whether the virus is circulating
undetected among poultry.

Bird
flu drug carries a lethal threat --Scientists
warn that Tamiflu use could devastate wildlife and trigger a second,
deadlier pandemic 07 Jan 2007 Britain faces an ecological
catastrophe that could wreak havoc on wildlife populations when the
first outbreak of Asian flu hits the country. Scientists say they fear
that tons of the anti-viral agent Tamiflu - taken by Britons trying
to combat the disease - would be flushed down sewers into rivers and
lakes. [See: Rumsfeld's
growing stake in Tamiflu 31 Oct 2005 Defense Secretary, ex-chairman
of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing.]

Bird
flu raging in Vietnam's Mekong delta 02 Jan 2007 Nguyen Hien
Trung, head of Hau Giang’s animal health department, said a new site
had been identified in Vi Thuy district yesterday after a dead bird
had tested positive for the deadly H5N1 virus strain. A total of three
communes in two districts had bird flu, he said.

Human
Bird Flu Deaths in 2006 28 Dec 2006 Bird flu killed three members
of a family in Egypt, pushing the number of fatalities worldwide this
year to 79, more than reported in the previous three years combined.

Bird
flu kills second Egyptian in two days 27 Dec 2006 A deadly strain
of bird flu has killed an Egyptian girl, the second such death in two
days and one that brought the number of deaths in the country this year
to nine.

Bird
flu bill passed unanimously 14 Dec 2006 (New Zealand) A bill
that gives the Government sweeping powers to
suspend almost all laws to control a bird flu outbreak has
passed with unanimous support - but the rules on triggering it have
been tightened. The Law Reform (Epidemic Preparedness) Bill grants sweeping
powers - including the ability to ban public
gatherings, requisition buildings, vehicles and medicines and allowing
police to detain people for medical tests. The bill also
allows the quarantine of people suspected of having bird flu or other
pandemic diseases.

"We've
never seen anything like this -- ever."Thousands
of ducks mysteriously dying in Idaho 13 Dec 2006 Officials scrambled
on Wednesday to determine what has caused the deaths of thousands of
mallard ducks in south-central Idaho near the Utah border. Wildlife
experts have sent samples to government labs to test for the deadly
H5N1 bird flu strain, among other pathogens. Officials with the federal
Bureau of Homeland Security [?!?] have been also called in to help with
the probe.

Forced
vaccines and quarantines are being signed into law as we 'debate' the
solution to Bush's war in Iraq: Senate
approves Burr's bioterrorism bill --Critics
warn about the effects of 'secret vaccine production' 06
Dec 2006 The Senate passed a bill last night [S.3678]
sponsored by Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., that would create a new federal
agency to combat [foment] bioterrorism. The bill to establish
the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, commonly
referred to as BARDA, passed by unanimous consent. Barbara Loe Fisher,
the president of the National Vaccine Information Center, has been an
outspoken critic of the bill. She was unaware that the bill had been
passed by the Senate last night but said she's worried about the effects
"secret vaccine production" could have on the American public.
"This is an extremely dangerous precedent that is being set," she said.
[Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (Engrossed as Agreed to or
Passed by Senate)[S.3678.ES] --The Library of Congress, THOMAS]

The
House vote to approve BARDA could take place before Friday, 08 Dec.
(National Vaccine
Information Center) 06 Dec 2006 In the future, when the Secretary
of Health and Human Services declares a public health "emergency"
under Bioshield and other federal and state legislation passed since
Sept. 11, 2001, Americans could be quarantined
and forced to use experimental drugs and vaccines and have no recourse
to the civil justice system if they are injured by them.Congress has already given complete liability
protection to drug companies and those who order citizens to take
drugs and vaccines during a declared public health "emergency."
[Call the Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121 to express your views on
BARDA; visit www.house.gov
to locate your Congresscritters.]

From
the 'people' who brought you the Hurricane Katrina response:NRC
Releases Plan For Continued "Mission-Essential" Operations
During an Avian Flu Pandemic 01 Dec 2006 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission has released its 90-page plan outlining how the agency would
maintain mission-essential and supporting functions during a possible
flu pandemic that may cause staff absenteeism
of 40 percent or more. The plan says the NRC would systematically
"shed" lower priority work[!?!] and take certain
action ahead of time to better support staff during a pandemic... The
federal government planning assumptions for the pandemic include absenteeism
as high as 40 percent for periods of weeks in the course of a 12- to
18-month period.

IT
Caught Off Guard by Flu Pandemic Warning --Call to make quarantine
preparations a priority is 'eye-opener' for execs 04 Dec 2006 Gartner
Inc. is recommending that businesses complete planning by the second
quarter of next year for a possible avian influenza pandemic and in
particular stock up on supplies that would be needed by data center
workers who might be quarantined together.

Stockpiling
suggested for possible bird flu 06 Nov 2006 US citizens in Hong
Kong have been advised to build a three-month stockpile of food, medicine
and water in their homes in case of a bird flu pandemic, a news report
said Tuesday. An advisory has been sent out to all 60,000 registered
US citizens in the former British colony... which suggests stockpiling
4.5 litres of water per person per day and to prepare water purification
equipment in case of "complete infrastructure
breakdown," the South China Morning Post reported. [You
can be sure Halliburton, Blackwater USA, Bechtel and the entire Bush
regime is *banking* on it.]

Scientists
collar bird flu's 'killer' gene 06 Nov 2006 Scientists in China
report that they have identified the gene which determines the virulence
of the H5N1, or bird flu, virus in poultry. The breakthrough could pave
the way for new [deadly] vaccines, the scientists claim. Some
strains of H5N1 kill more than half those they infect, while others
leave virtually all their victims standing [?!?]. [Wow,
let's hope Bush or this other Nazi doesn't get hold of this virus:Israeli
official wants homogenous nation 05 Nov 2006 Israel's new deputy
prime minister on Sunday called for a near-total separation between
Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land, sparking a wave of condemnation less
than a week after the far-right politician joined the Cabinet.]

WHO
issues bird flu warning, warns on Tamiflu research 03 Nov 2006
The World Health Organisation has warned that there is no guarantee
that a pandemic strain of the H5N1 virus will be less deadly to people.
The report, published this week, also cautioned against regarding the
anti-viral drug Tamiflu as a magic bullet, highlighting that some H5N1
viruses seem to already be naturally resistant to the effects of the
drug. The report comes less than two weeks after the Centre for Ecology
and Hydrology (CEH) in the UK issued a warning about the possible environmental
effects of large scale use of Tamiflu. [See: Rumsfeld's
growing stake in Tamiflu 31 Oct 2005 Defense Secretary, ex-chairman
of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing.]

Australia
Tests Bird Flu Defenses 19 Oct 2006 One-thousand people in Australia
have conducted a four-day bird flu exercise that simulated the arrival
of a planeload of flu-stricken passengers at Brisbane's international
airport. The drill included customs officers, the police, and health
workers. A series of drills tested the readiness of customs officers,
who separated the "sick" passengers at the
airport... [And sent them where, a KBR
detention centre?]

Egypt
detects new human H5N1 bird flu case 10 Oct 2006 Egypt has detected
its first human case of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus since
May in an Egyptian woman who raised ducks from her home, a World Health
Organisation official said on Tuesday.

Vehicles
From Sudan to Be Sprayed Against Bird Flu 10 Oct 2006 Vehicles
from Sudan entering Uganda through Koboko and Arua districts are to
be 'disinfected,' reports Frank Mugabi. All vehicles will be subjected
to drive through a disinfection [sic - infection] wheel well
to be sunk at Oraba border post in Koboko district while passengers
will be required to disinfect their shoes. The workshop also agreed
that a check-point be set up at Oraba to check for smuggled fowl.

Official
says U.S. bird flu plans near "state of the art" 05 Oct 2006
U.S. preparations against a possible outbreak of the deadly form of
the H5N1 avian flu virus are solid, but other countries may not be as
ready, a U.S. health safety official warned on Thursday. "We're ...
close to the state-of-the-art in the United States with preparations
and strong biosecurity measures," said Ambassador John Lange, the State
Department's special representative on avian and pandemic influenza.
[See: KBR
Awarded U.S. Department of Homeland Security Contingency Support for
Emergency Support Services 24 Jan 2006 (halliburton.com) "The
contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing
temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing
ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Program facilities... to
support the rapid development of new programs."]

Scientists
infect mice with reconstructed version of deadly 1918 flu virus
28 Sep 2006 The 1918 Spanish flu that killed up to 50 million people
worldwide caused a severe immune response which may help to explain
why it was so deadly, American scientists said on Wednesday. By
infecting mice with a reconstructed version of the 1918 virus
and monitoring their response, a team of scientists believe they have
found some clues to solve the puzzle as well as a possible new way to
fight [foment] pandemic flu.

WHO
ranks bird flu as top health threat 22 Sep 2006 Bird flu remains
the number one danger facing global public health, the World Health
Organisation warned as a five-day conference on issues facing the western
Pacific region wrapped up today.

City
of London to have bird flu drill 14 Sep 2006 The City of London
financial services sector will next month test out how it would cope
with a bird flu pandemic in an exercise run by finance industry regulators.
The Bank of England, the Financial Services Authority and the Treasury
will organise the bird flu simulation event, which will run from October
13 to November 24.

City
exercise will test its ability to cope with 'flu pandemic' 15
Sep 2006 The City of London's ability to cope with a flu pandemic will
be tested next month when UK financial authorities conduct a six-week
exercise to gauge the financial service sector's preparedness for such
a threat. Ominously, the simulation will start on Friday the 13th.

Exodus,
morale shake CDC 10 Sep 2006 An exodus of key leaders and scientists
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has raised "great
concern" among five of the six former directors who led the agency over
the past 40 years. Their concerns, expressed in a rare joint letter
to current CDC Director Julie Gerberding, come amid growing staff complaints
about whether her strategic shifts in the agency's focus are putting
public health at risk, according to interviews with current and former
CDC officials and documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Senate Finance Committee, prompted by a CDC whistleblower, is
probing CDC's oversight of a $3.8 billion
bioterrorism grant program.

Bird
flu virus found in blood of human victims 11 Sep 2006 The H5N1
bird flu virus replicates far more aggressively in people than common
human flu viruses A study of patients in Vietnam also found the virus
in the blood stream of many of the human victims, which means it may
have spread to other parts of the body, it was reported in Nature Medicine.

Avian
flu kills in similar manner to 1918 flu: study[Of course, as
designed. See: Killer
flu recreated in the lab 07 Oct 2004. Scientists have shown
that tiny changes to modern flu viruses could render them as deadly
as the 1918 strain which killed millions. A
US team added two genes from a sample of the 1918 virus to a modern
strain known to have no effect on mice. Animals exposed to
this composite were dying within days of symptoms similar to those found
in human victims of the 1918 pandemic.] 10 Sep 2006 Avian flu kills
in much the same way the 1918 flu did, by drowning victims in fluid
produced in their own lungs, a new study has found.

Low-risk
H5N1 bird flu found in Pennsylvania ducks 02 Sep 2006 Mallard
ducks in Pennsylvania have tested positive for a low-pathogenic strain
of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the U.S. Agriculture [Agribusiness] and
Interior departments said on Saturday, adding to cases detected recently
in Maryland and Michigan.

Bird
flu 'endemic, on the move' 18 Aug 2006 Bird flu is "endemic"
in parts of Asia and is spreading from country to country, the United
Nation warned today.

Bird
flu virus found in 2 wild Michigan swans --Type isn't deadly,
early tests show 15 Aug 2006 Two wild, mute swans that lived in the
Pointe Mouillee State Game Area on the shores of Lake Erie in Monroe
County had a non-threatening strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the
U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Interior said Monday.

Bush
poised to play the bioterror card:White
House: Type of Bird Flu Possibly in U.S. 14 Aug 2006 Scientists
have discovered the possible presence of bird flu in wild mute swans
in Michigan - but it does not appear to be the worrisome, highly pathogenic
strain, the White House announced Monday.

Bird
Flu confirmed in the Netherlands 13 Aug 2006 The Dutch government
has confirmed its first H5N1 bird flu case in the country. The case
was found in 2 dead young owls in a zoo in Rotterdam.

Bird
Flu Monitoring Expands Nationally 09 Aug 2006 The government
on Wednesday expanded its monitoring of wild migratory birds for a deadly
bird flu virus to cover the entire nation and U.S. territories in the
Pacific.

US
begins building treaty-breaching germ war defence centre 31
Jul 2006 Construction work has begun near Washington on a vast germ
warfare laboratory intended to help protect the US against an attack
with biological weapon, but critics say the laboratory's work will
violate international law and its extreme secrecy will exacerbate a
biological arms race. The centre will have to produce and stockpile
the world's most lethal bacteria and viruses, which
is forbidden by the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.

U.S.
biodefense lab raises concerns 30 Jul 2006 The Bush regime
is building a massive biodefense laboratory in Maryland that will simulate
[stimulate?] calamitous bioterrorism attacks,
it was reported Sunday. But much of what the National Biodefense Analysis
and Countermeasures Center in Fort Detrick, Md., does may never be publicly
known because the White House intends to operate
the facility largely in secret, the Washington Post reported.
In an unusual arrangement, the building itself will be classified as
"highly restricted space," the newspaper said. Not even nuclear labs
operate with such secrecy.

The
Secretive Fight Against [For] Bioterror--The government is
building a highly classified facility to research biological weapons,
but its closed-door approach has raised concerns. 30 Jul 2006 On the
grounds of a military base an hour's drive from the capital, the Bush
regime is building a massive biodefense laboratory unlike any seen since
biological weapons were banned 34 years ago.

Rumsfeld
poised to make (another) *killing:* US
firms are stocking up on bird flu drug 14 Jul 2006 More than
100 companies of all sizes have contacted Roche AG, the manufacturer
of the influenza drug Tamiflu, about getting supplies for their employees
in case of a [DoD-engendered] bird-flu pandemic, the company says. [See:
Rumsfeld's
growing stake in Tamiflu 31 Oct 2005 Defense Secretary, ex-chairman
of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing... Rumsfeld
served as Gilead's chairman from 1997 until he joined the Bush administration
in 2001, and he still holds a Gilead stake valued at between
$5 million and $25 million, according to federal financial
disclosures filed by Rumsfeld.]

"The
operative phrase is 'not if but when.'" Red
Cross: Prepare for bird flu [Yes, prepare to *resist* rather than
be hauled off to a KBR detention center for forced, deadly vaccinations.
See: KBR
awarded $385M Homeland Security contract for U.S. detention centers
24 Jan 2006.] Organization advises to stock up on water, food; central
Illinois could see virus as early as September
[Right, just in time for 'elections.'] 09 Jul 2006 Avian flu pandemic
could hit central Illinois as early as September with migratory birds
flying down the Illinois River waterway, and health officials are recommending
households have two to three weeks of supplies in the event of widespread
quarantines. [Count on it. Even Diebold can't save the
GOP in the 2006-2008 'elections.' Bush is poised to play the bioterror
card. --LRP]

Pick
a Crisis - Any Crisis By Nancy Levant 07 Jul 2006 "The
'pandemic' is looming, so we are told day and night with TV, movies,
wildlife and medical experts, etc., and we now have legislation passed
to deal specifically with this pandemic. Strange how they know for
a fact that it's coming, and also have some sense of how many people
are going to die, though they don’t know how (or if) 'the virus' will
mutate. It’s strange how this pandemic coincides with the globalists’
desire for massive global depopulation by 2050."

Spain
Confirms Its First Case of Bird Flu 07 Jul 2006 Spain has recorded
its first case of H5N1 bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry said Friday.
The deadly strain was found in a water fowl in a marsh area outside
the northern city of Vitoria.

Deadly
bird flu strain found in Nigeria 02 Jul 2006 The most lethal
strain of bird flu has been detected in the eastern Nigerian state of
Taraba, bringing to 15 the number of states, out of a total of 36, to
be affected by the virus, a state official said Saturday.

Bird
flu most deadly in teens and young adults, eerie echo of 1918 pandemic30 Jun 2006 The H5N1 avian flu virus has exacted an alarmingly high
death toll among adolescents and young adults, - an eerie echo of the
infamous Spanish flu, a new analysis of cumulative cases by the World
Health Organization confirms. "The differences in the age-related case-fatality
distribution among H5N1 cases are reminiscent of those observed during
previous pandemics, particularly in 1918, where case-fatality rates
were higher among young adults," the review said. [That's because
Bush's bioterrorists have been busy little bees, resurrecting the 1918
virus. See: Killer
flu recreated in the lab 07 Oct 2004 UK Scientists have shown
that tiny changes to modern flu viruses could render them as deadly
as the 1918 strain which killed millions. A
US team added two genes from a sample of the 1918 virus to a modern
strain known to have no effect on mice. Animals exposed to
this composite were dying within days of symptoms similar to those found
in human victims of the 1918 pandemic. See: Reigniting
Spanish flu 05 Oct 2005 The influenza strain that killed up
to 50 million people in the 1918 pandemic has been recreated by scientists.]

WHO:
Bird flu virus mutated 26 Jun 2006 WHO officials said the transmission
of the bird flu virus between human beings has been confirmed in Indonesia.

US
officials test for bird flu in arctic Alaska 08 Jun 2006 In
a coastal marsh near the frozen Arctic Ocean, a swab of eider dropping
is one of 50,000 such field samples from wild birds that federal and
local agencies aim to collect in America this year and test for the
deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. Officials also want another 75,000 to
100,000 samples directly from live or dead birds.

Agribusiness
fomenting bird flu pandemic:Bird-Flu
Trail Leads Medical Detectives Back to Poultry Farms 30 May
2006 Officials looking to contain the avian influenza virus that may
spark a human pandemic are downplaying the importance of migrating wild
birds as the source of infections among domestic poultry. Farms and
poultry traders are the more likely cause of the spread of the flu,
which has killed 48 people so far this year, more than all of 2005...
"The disease is spreading more through commercial husbandry and
the humans that are moving poultry around,'' said Juan Lubroth, head
of infectious diseases at the animal-health service of the Rome-based
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Indonesia
announces epidemic law 29 May 2006 The Indonesian government
Friday reactivated the 1984 epidemic law in its latest effort to fight
against bird flu, which so far has killed 36 people. Under
the law, those convicted of blocking government's way to eradicating
[sic] the disease are punishable by one-year jail term.

Community
of Nations Discusses Military Homeland Defense Role (DoD) 26
May 2006 Twenty-nine nations of the trans-Atlantic community took a
first step toward hammering out an understanding of when and how to
use military forces to secure the homeland during a conference held
here May 22-24... The event was organized by the Marshall Center in
cooperation with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Homeland Defense and the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army
War College. "We've looked at things like,
what's the role of the military in managing bird flu?" said
conference moderator, Jack Clarke.

Bird
flu team 'too late' for answers[Gee, what a surprise.]
26 May 2006 Delays in the investigation of the world's largest outbreak
of bird flu may prevent health officials from ever knowing if human-to-human
transmission of the disease killed six members of the same family in
Indonesia. A team of the world's leading avian flu experts has arrived
in the remote village of Kubu Sembelang in North Sumatra to investigate
the deaths, which occurred during the past three weeks. However, the
director of the World Health Organisation's Collaborating Centre for
Reference and Research on Influenza in Melbourne, Ian Gust, said most
of the evidence would already have been destroyed.

Bird
flu kills seven family members 26 May 2006 Seven Indonesian
family members who died of bird flu may have infected each other, the
World Health Organisation said. Health experts were tracing anyone who
had contact with them, but to date there was no sign of the virus spreading
among villagers, the WHO said.

Plame
investigation heating up, ergo: Hunt
is on in Alaska for deadly bird flu virus 25 May 2006 From the
recently thawed tidal flats that edge Anchorage to the tundra of western
Alaska, the hunt for deadly avian influenza virus is on. Biologists
and rural hunters have begun testing wild birds to search for signs
of the H5N1 virus that has infected birds in Asia, Africa and Europe
and caused more than 120 deaths on those continents. [And you can
be sure, on the day the next *big political crisis* emerges for the
Bush regime, bird flu 'will have arrived' on US shores. Only bioterror
panic and/or bioterror can 'save' Bush now.]

Never
use police, army, US pandemic expert says 23 May 2006 Dr. D.A.
Henderson, who helped wipe out smallpox around the world, has advice
for governments fighting bird flu -- don't use the military or police
to enforce public health. Henderson is critical of parts of the U.S.
national pandemic plan that call for the use of quarantine and other
imposed types of enforcement [such as KBR's
detention centres] should influenza or any other infectious disease
bring on a pandemic.

Bird
Flu Case May Be First Double Jump 24 May 2006 Reacting to the
death on Monday of an Indonesian man, the World Health Organization
said yesterday that the case appeared to be the first example of the
avian flu jumping from human to human to human.

Homeland
Security Medical Officer: States Unprepared for Bird Flu 19
May 2006 Bird flu will hit the United States _ it's only a matter of
time _ and not all states are ready to respond to the deadly virus,
the Homeland Security Department's top doctor warns. Dr. Jeffrey Runge,
homeland security's chief medical officer, said "it's not a matter
of if, but when" bird flu enters the country. [How does he know?]

EU
countries urged to appoint bird flu "czars" 16 May 2006 EU governments
should each appoint a "bird flu czar" to make sure they could cope with
a flu pandemic and put preparations on a par with countries like the
United States, a top EU official said on Tuesday.

From
the same people who brought you the Hurricane Katrina aftermath:
How the Bush-Mengele bunch plans to solve the problem of having raided
the Social Security Trust Fund to continue to give the top 1% tax cuts:
Flu
Vaccine Priorities Test Pandemic Planning12 May 2006 In the event of a global flu pandemic, federal officials
have said they intend to give vaccine first to health-care workers,
followed by the oldest, sickest patients, a policy aimed at saving the
most lives. But one of the government's top medical ethicists [Nazi]
is challenging that approach, arguing it is more appropriate to give
young adults priority because they are at higher risk of dying in a
flu pandemic and still have many productive years left [?!?].
...Some panel members believe that... "If you save a 65-year-old, you
may have only saved 15 years of quality life."

Two-week
U.S. Northern Command exercises for pandemic flu outbreak (DoD)
10 May 2006 More than 5,000 U.S. and Canadian servicemembers are working
with authorities in five U.S. states and two Canadian provinces to test
their response capabilities to crises ranging from a major hurricane
to a terrorist attack to a pandemic flu outbreak. Ardent Sentry 2006,
a two-week U.S. Northern Command exercise, kicked off May 8 to test
military support to federal, provincial, state and local authorities
while continuing to support the Defense Department's homeland defense
mission, according to Air Force Lt. Col. Eric Butterbaugh, a NORTHCOM
and North American Aerospace Defense Command spokesman. [Why is *NORTHCOM*
involved with bird flu, a 'medical' issue? See: Research
teams have reconstructed deadly 1918 flu virus 06 May 2006 Trekking
into the permafrost region of Alaska to unearth the remains of an Inuit
Indian woman who died of the so-called Spanish flu, researchers in 1997
gathered tissue to retrieve fragments of the killer virus. The sample
was compared with those preserved by the U.S. military from World War
I soldiers who died of the infection. Such protein snippets provided
enough biological information for scientists to genetically
engineer the pathogen in the lab, resurrecting a killerthat
mysteriously rose in September 1918.]

Research
teams have reconstructed deadly 1918 flu virus
[Why?!?] 06 May 2006 Trekking into the permafrost region
of Alaska to unearth the remains of an Inuit Indian woman who died of
the so-called Spanish flu, researchers in 1997
gathered tissue to retrieve fragments of the killer virus. The sample
was compared with those preserved by the U.S. military from World War
I soldiers who died of the infection. Such protein snippets provided
enough biological information for scientists to genetically
engineer the pathogen in the lab, resurrecting a killerthat
mysteriously rose in September 1918... Dr. Christopher Basler, assistant
professor of microbiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan,
and colleagues, used the samples' blueprint to begin
re-creating the pathogen that infected one in four in the
United States and killed about 550,000 nationwide. Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger,
chief of molecular pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
in suburban Washington, began the quest for the 1918 killer. [See: Rumsfeld's
growing stake in Tamiflu 31 Oct 2005 Defense Secretary, ex-chairman
of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing. Rumsfeld
served as Gilead's chairman from 1997
until he joined the Bush administration in 2001, and he still holds
a Gilead stake valued at between $5 million and $25 million, according
to federal financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld. See: Vaccine
makers helped write Frist-backed shield law --E-mails reveal
private meetings 08 May 2006 Vaccine industry officials helped shape
legislation behind the scenes that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist
secretly amended into a bill to shield them from lawsuits, according
to e-mails obtained by a public advocacy group.]

Vaccine
makers helped write Frist-backed shield law --E-mails reveal
private meetings 08 May 2006 Vaccine industry officials helped shape
legislation behind the scenes that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist
secretly amended into a bill to shield them from lawsuits, according
to e-mails obtained by a public advocacy group. E-mails and documents
written by a trade group for the vaccine-makers show the organization
met privately with Frist's staff and the White House about measures
that would give the industry protection from lawsuits filed by people
hurt [or killed] by the vaccines. Public Citizen's study follows
a February story in The Tennessean that Frist,
along with House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., ordered the vaccine
liability language inserted in a defense spending bill in December without
debate and in violation of usual Senate practice.

U.S.
European, Northern, and Pacific Commands sponsored pandemic response
exercises: DoD03 May 2006 If a flu pandemic hit the United
States, the Defense Department's top priority would be to protect the
military's operational readiness so it can play a supporting role to
the Homeland Security and State departments, as outlined in a national
response plan released today by the White House... Military forces might
be asked to provide security as pharmaceuticals are transported and
distributed. National Guard troops would likely help keep the peace.
U.S. European Command, U.S. Northern Command and U.S. Pacific Command
have already sponsored pandemic influence response exercises, Air Force
Col. Richard Chavez said.

U.S.
outlines $7.1 billion flu pandemic plan --'Road map' outlines
which government agency is responsible for more than 300 tasks [?!?]
in pandemic flu 03 May 2006 The United States government plans to
stockpile vaccines, limit international and domestic flights, quarantine
those who become ill and bring
in the military to maintain order if a flu pandemic strikes
the country. The $7.1 billion plan, released Wednesday, lists more than
300 recommendations including: "Infected people should voluntarily
quarantine themselves, and quarantine
would be mandatory in the most extreme cases"

In
U.S. Pandemic Draft, Federal Troops, National Guard to Maintain Order
--Military activated to enforce travel restrictions
and deliver [!?!] vaccines and medicines 02 May 2006 According
to a 228-page draft of the government's pandemic flu plan obtained by
The Associated Press, an outbreak could lead to a variety of restrictions
on movement in and around the country, including limiting the number
of international flights and quarantining exposed travelers...
The report envisions possible breakdowns in public order and says
governors might deploy National Guard troops or request federal troops
to maintain order. The military also could be activated to enforce travel
restrictions and deliver vaccines and medicines, the report says.
[See: The
Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.]

Rapid
Containment Key to Preventing Bird Flu Pandemic 02 May 2006
The WHO regional director for the Western Pacific, Shigeru Omi, says
once there are signs the H5N1 bird-flu virus is spreading among people,
there will only be two or three weeks to prevent or at least slow down
[foment] a global pandemic. Omi says those measure include giving
large numbers of people anti-viral drugs, restricting travel, quarantining
infected areas and closing schools.

Flight
curbs 'won't halt bird flu' 02 May 2006 British experts say
closing international airports will do little to halt a bird flu outbreak.
Their prediction follows another computer simulation that shows the
folly of travel restrictions in the face of a pandemic.

Egypt
finds 13th case of human bird flu 02 May 2006 A 27-year-old
Egyptian woman is being treated in hospital for bird flu, the country's
13th human infection with the feared virus, a spokesman from the health
ministry said on Tuesday.

Mild
form of avian flu found in New Jersey 01 May 2006 Authorities
have discovered a mild form of avian influenza at a live bird market
in New Jersey, but it is not the deadly H5N1 strain governments around
the world are trying to contain, the state's agriculture department
said.

Internet
shut-down in two to four days during flu pandemic: Booz Allen
Telephone and Internet services could be overwhelmed and shut down in
the early stages of a bird flu pandemic, according to a report released
on Thursday. Businesses need to think of other ways to keep going as
governments close schools and direct people to stay home, management
consulting firm Booz
Allen Hamilton reported... "Telecommunications (phone and Internet)
will likely be overwhelmed early in a pandemic, with experts predicting
shut-downs in two to four days,
meaning that telecommuting will not be viable and alternative communications
need to be explored," the report read. "Governments
will likely direct the general population to stay in their homes,
and minimize social contact," it added. ['Overwhelmed?' No. The Bush
dictatorship is going to *shut it down.*]

Bird
flu one of many pandemic threats 27 Apr 2006 Birds are not the
only source of viruses that could become the next flu pandemic, say
two Australian virus experts, who argue the 1918 Spanish flu virus came
from mammals, not birds, as recently suggested... In October 2005, a
team led by Dr Jeffrey Taubenberger of the Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology in the US, reported in Nature
that the Spanish flu virus, which killed millions around the world in
1918-1919, was a bird virus that leapt the species barrier into humans.

35,000
birds to be culled in new avian flu outbreak 27 Apr 2006 Government
officials last night ordered the immediate slaughter of 35,000 chickens
on a poultry farm in Norfolk - the centre of Britain's poultry industry
- after dead birds were found to be infected with an avian flu virus.

"What
they're proposing is nonsensical." CDC
proposal to detain, quarantine passengers opposed 24 Apr 2006
Health experts, airlines and civil libertarians are demanding that the
government reconsider proposed quarantine rules that would battle an
avian flu pandemic by detaining sick airline and ship passengers. The
rules would require airlines and cruise ship operators to collect personal
information from all passengers and report sick ones to the government.
Critics say the plan is difficult, costly and in violation of passengers'
rights. Barry Steinhardt of the American Civil Liberties Union says
the CDC should drop the proposal. He says it would give the government
a "free pass" to detain people. "We couldn't do this to a criminal,"
he says.

Groups
question US plan to detain, quarantine sick travelers 21 Apr
2006 Infectious disease experts and the American Civil Liberties Union
raised concerns on Friday about an agreement that would allow U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention and customs agents to detain anyone
who looked sick with bird flu. "CDC is authorized to isolate and/or
quarantine arriving persons reasonably believed to be infected with
or exposed to specified quarantinable diseases and to detain carriers
and cargo infected with a communicable disease," it reads. It also provides
for Customs or Border Patrol agents to forcibly detain, if necessary,
anyone coming in who appears to be sick while the CDC is contacted.
[See: KBR
awarded $385M Homeland Security contract for U.S. detention centers
24 Jan 2006 [See: KBR
Awarded U.S. Department of Homeland Security Contingency Support for
Emergency Support Services 24 Jan 2006 (halliburton.com) "The
contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing
temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing
ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Program facilities... to
support the rapid development of new programs."]

Bush
expected to approve dramatic pandemic flu response plan 17 Apr
2006 U.S. President [sic] George W. Bush is expected to approve within
days a national pandemic influenza response plan under which the government
would expand the Internet and possibly permit foreign countries to print
U.S. currency during a flu pandemic. [Not to mention, National Guard
troops could be dispatched to cities facing possible "insurrection."
See: U.S.
Plan For Flu Pandemic Revealed 16 Apr 2006]

I
knew the Bush regime would drop a bombshell on Easter Sunday, when everyone
is busy hunting for Easter eggs! Buried in this PentaPost article is
this nugget from Homeland Suckyourity's chief medical officer: National
Guard troops could be dispatched to cities facing possible "insurrection."U.S.
Plan For Flu Pandemic Revealed--Multi-Agency
Proposal Awaits Bush's Approval 16 Apr 2006 Dictator Bush is expected
to approve soon a national pandemic influenza response plan that identifies
more than 300 specific tasks for federal agencies... the Bush administration
would tap into its secure stash of medications [?!?], cancel
large gatherings... National Guard troops could be dispatched to
cities facing possible "insurrection," said Jeffrey W. Runge, chief
medical officer at the Department of Homeland Security. [See: The
Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.]

Schools
will shut in 100,000 flu death fear 09 Apr 2006 Ministers are
drawing up plans for widespread closure of schools to halve a potential
100,000 deaths among children in the event of an avian-flu pandemic.
Sir Liam Donaldson, the chief medical officer, has advised the government
that 50,000 deaths could be prevented by such a shutdown.

Myanmar
fighting over 100 bird flu outbreaks - UN 10 Apr 2006 Bird flu
is spreading fast in secretive, military-ruled Myanmar, which is now
battling more than 100 outbreaks in poultry since the virus was first
reported a month ago, U.N. agriculture officials said on Monday.

Revealed:
the secret No 10 plan to tackle bird flu food shortages --Confidential
papers seen by the Sunday Telegraph 09 Apr 2006 Emergency plans to tackle
widespread food shortages in the event of a bird flu pandemic are being
drawn up by ministers, according to secret Cabinet documents... The
Government papers, which have been discussed by the "Cabinet Committee
on Influenza Pandemic Planning", include a blueprint for "managing the
response" to a pandemic. Whitehall would go into what officials call
a full-scale "battle rhythm" with Tony Blair lined up to take personal
charge at an as yet unspecified stage... A Government paper revealed
last week suggested that families might have to wait up to four weeks
to bury their dead.

Bird
flu testing keeps labs open 08 Apr 2006 All eight of Scotland's
laboratories testing for bird flu are to open over the weekend to help
meet the rise in referrals of dead birds.

Simulation
tests readiness for bird flu 06 Apr 2006 Officials are putting
their bird flu plans to the test this week during a real-time simulation
[Exercise Hawthorn] of an outbreak of the disease in Britain. Run by
the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the exercise
involves foreign governments as well as the MoD, police, farmers, veterinarians
and sports organisations.

Scottish
swan killed by H5 strain of avian flu 06 Apr 2006 A three kilometre
exclusion zone was thrown round an area of central Scotland last night
after tests confirmed a dead swan discovered in Fife was carrying a
highly pathogenic strain of bird flu.

Dead
swan sparks UK bird flu alert --Emergency committee meets today
after Scottish farms quarantined 06 Apr 2006 Scientists and vets were
conducting urgent tests last night on a dead swan infected with bird
flu that was discovered in Scotland. The Scottish Executive confirmed
that the bird, found in a village in Fife yesterday afternoon, was carrying
the "highly pathogenic H5 avian flu" virus.

Egypt
Reports 9th Human Case of Bird Flu 05 Apr 2006 An Egyptian toddler
has been infected with the virulent strain of bird flu, bringing the
number of human cases in the country to nine, the Health Ministry said
Wednesday.

Bird
flu: the secret Cabinet document --Army could be "too stretched
to help" due to international commitments --More than 700,000
could die in worst-case bird flu scenario --The figures were disclosed
in a Cabinet Office briefing paper 03 Apr 2006 The death toll from a
bird flu pandemic in Britain could be more than 700,000, according to
a confidential government report seen by The Scotsman. The figure -
far higher than previously stated - is contained in a Cabinet Office
briefing paper prepared for emergency planning officials, which warns
that the virus could strike the country in multiple "waves". It also
says the armed forces may not be available to help in an emergency because
of Britain's extensive international military deployments.

Secret
UK report: Human bird flu victims face end in 'plague pits'02
Apr 2006 Families may have to wait for four months to bury their dead
in the event of an avian flu pandemic, stirring up folk memories of
the burial pits of the great plague of 1665,
writes David Cracknell. A confidential Home Office report says as many
as 320,000 people could die from the H5N1 strain of the virus if it
mutates into a form that can readily be passed between humans. [See:
U.S.
to create a bird flu virus mutation 24 Mar 2005 The U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention has begun a series of experiments
to see how likely the bird flu virus could result in a human pandemic.]

Gene
From 1918 Virus Proves Key to Virulent Influenza (University
of Wisconsin Press Release) 06 Oct 2004 "Using a gene resurrected
from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, recorded
history's most lethal outbreak of infectious disease, scientists have
found that a single gene may have been responsible for the devastating
virulence of the virus. Writing Oct. 7 in the journal Nature, virologist
Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University
of Tokyo, describes experiments
in which engineered viruses were made more potent by the addition of
a single gene.

Cairo
confirms two more human bird flu cases 03 Apr 2006 Two cases
of bird flu have been confirmed in northern Egypt, raising the total
number of Egyptian human cases to eight, Health Minister Hatem al-Gabali
announced on Sunday.

Bird
flu expected on U.S. West Coast by summer 01 Apr 2006 California
officials expect bird flu to arrive on the U.S. West Coast this summer
in what could be the first sign in the United States of the deadly virus,
which has already swept from Asia across Europe and down to Africa.
"The H5N1 virus in birds is expected in the next couple of months in
the United States," California Health and Human Services Secretary Kim
Belshe told reporters on Thursday at a state bird flu pandemic preparedness
meeting. [See: U.S.
to create a bird flu virus mutation 24 Mar 2005 The U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun a series of experiments
to see how likely the bird flu virus could result in a human pandemic.
See: KBR
awarded $385M Homeland Security contract for U.S. detention centers
24 Jan 2006 KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton
Co., said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the
Department of Homeland Security to support its Immigration and Customs
Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency [Gee, what 'emergency'
could that be?] See: Rumsfeld's
growing stake in Tamiflu 31 Oct 2005]

Bird-Flu
Pandemic Would Likely Start in California[How do they *know?*]
30 Mar 2006 If a bird-flu pandemic does hit the United States, it may
well start in California and spread across the country in just two to
four weeks. That's the scenario drawn from results of a computer model
created by researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Fogarty
International Center.

Bird
Flu Defies Control Efforts 27 Mar 2006 The spread of avian influenza
to at least 29 new countries in the last seven weeks — one of the biggest
outbreaks of the virus since it emerged nine years ago — is prompting
a sobering reassessment of the strategy that has guided efforts to contain
the disease.

Bear
Stearns warns against airline stocks due to 'imminent' bird flu
21 Mar 2006 Investment bank Bear Stearns has advised investors to start
dumping airline and retail stocks in favour of blue-chip utilities as
a hedge against bird flu, warning that a full human pandemic of the
H5N1 virus could set off the worst global stock market crash since the
1930s.

Bird
flu virus 'now in two forms' 21 Mar 2006 The H5N1 virus responsible
for the current virulent strain of bird flu has evolved into two genetically
distinct strains, US scientists have confirmed. [See: Killer
flu recreated in the lab 07 Oct 2004 UK Scientists have shown
that tiny changes to modern flu viruses could render them as deadly
as the 1918 strain which killed millions. A US
team added two genes from a sample of the 1918 virus to a modern strain
known to have no effect on mice. Animals exposed to this composite were
dying within days of symptoms similar to those found in human victims
of the 1918 pandemic.]

Bird
flu mutation 'adds to threat of human pandemic' 21 Mar 2006
The virus that causes bird flu has split into two distinct genetic subgroups,
widening the gene pool from which a form that could trigger a human
pandemic might evolve. [Military intelligence warns that avian flu
could be used as weapon: report 08 Mar 2005 The military's intelligence
arm has warned the federal government that avian influenza could be
used as a weapon of bioterrorism, a heavily censored report suggests.
It also reveals that military planners believe a naturally occurring
flu pandemic may be imminent. The report, entitled Recent Human Outbreaks
of Avian Influenza and Potential Biological Warfare Implications, was
obtained under the Access to Information Act by The Canadian Press.
It was prepared by the J2 Directorate of Strategic Intelligence, a secretive
branch of National Defence charged with producing intelligence for the
government. Note: this article has been pulled.]

OIE
says some China bird flu vaccines ineffective 21 Mar 2006 China
may be using some substandard poultry vaccines to fight bird flu that
could allow birds to keep spreading the virus despite not showing symptoms,
a top animal health expert said on Tuesday. [The deadly vaccines
(The Bush regime has removed all liability for the pharma-terrorists)
are Bush's ticket to get the dissenters into FEMA camps
and KBR detention
centres.]

Allowing
the Drug Companies to Poison Our Children By Lewis Seiler &
Dan Hamburg "Top Republican so-called leaders—Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist (R-TN) and House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL)—recently sold
the future of our children to Big Pharma for a paltry $4 bucks a pop.
That’s the additional cost to produce a safe vaccine, a vaccine minus
the mercury-based preservative thimerosal... At the end of last year,
President [sic] Bush signed the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness
Act (PREPA), granting blanket immunity to pharmaceutical companies
for vaccine-induced injuries. The measure is a carte blanche for
industry, allowing it even to reintroduce mercury in vaccines that are
currently clean, and under the behest of the World Health Organization,
to continue shipping tainted vaccine to the 'developing world.'"

Here
come the quarantines: Schools
urged to prepare for bird flu --How will students be taught
if classes are shut down during pandemic? 22 Mar 2006 Who
coordinates decisions on closing schools or quarantining kids?
[Halliburton!] If classes shut down for weeks, how will a district keep
kids from falling behind? Who will keep the payroll running, or ease
the fear of parents [They need to fear Bush's Waffen-SS, who will come
to haul Leftists away], or provide food to children who count on school
meals? [Halliburton to the rescue! You can be sure, Cheney Halliburton
is coordinating the quarantines,
FEMA camps and KBR detention centres, even as we speak.]

Bird
flu kills five in Azerbaijan 22 Mar 2006 The bird flu deaths
of five people in Azerbaijan have pushed the world total human deaths
from H5N1 past 100, the World Health Organization said yesterday.

Genetic
differences of H5N1 strains viewed 20 Mar 2006 Analyses of H5N1
Southeast Asian bird flu samples shows the two strains causing human
disease are related and belong to two distinct genetic subgroups. "As
the virus continues its geographic expansion, it is also undergoing
genetic diversity expansion," said Rebecca Garten, a researcher on the
study. "Back in 2003 we only had one genetically distinct population
of H5N1 with the potential to cause a human pandemic. Now we have
two." [See: U.S.
to create a bird flu virus mutation 24 Mar 2005 The U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun a series of experiments
to see how likely the bird flu virus could result in a human pandemic.
The six-month series of experiments seeks to simulate the mixing and
matching of genes from the H5N1 avian flu virus that has plagued Asia
and a common human flu virus that public-health experts fear could turn
avian flu into a pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
CDC scientists inside an ultra-secure laboratory [?!?] have started
swapping the genes of the H5N1 avian virus with the genes of an H3N2
virus, the strain behind most recent human flu outbreaks.]

Second
Human Bird Flu Case Found in Egypt 19 Mar 2006 Egypt reported
its second human case of avian flu Sunday, and Israel continued its
slaughter of hundreds of thousands of birds while waiting to learn if
the disease had spread to poultry.

Bird
flu plan 'may spread virus' --British measures to deal with
an outbreak have been attacked as likely to promote wider infection
18 Mar 2006 Farmers will be free to move birds out of areas hit by avian
flu, with permission from a vet, under British plans to deal with an
outbreak of the disease.

Russia
says bird flu may hit US in autumn, mutate 16 Mar 2006 The deadly
bird flu virus, which has hit Asia, Europe and Africa, may spread to
the United States late this year and risks mutating dangerously there,
Russia's top animal and plant health inspector said on Thursday. [Just
in time for pre-'election' quarantines, FEMA camps and KBR detention
centres!]

Russian
leader sees U.S. behind bird flu outbreak 14 Mar 2006 Russian
Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov has blamed the United States
for the spread of avian influenza, or bird flu, in a number of European
countries, including Russia. "The forms of warfare are changing. It's
strange that not a single duck has yet died in America - they are all
dying in Russia and European countries. This makes one seriously wonder
why," Zyuganov said at a press conference at the Interfax main office
on Tuesday. [See: U.S.
to create a bird flu virus mutation 24 Mar 2005 The U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun a series of experiments
to see how likely the bird flu virus could result in a human pandemic.
The six-month series of experiments seeks to simulate the mixing and
matching of genes from the H5N1 avian flu virus that has plagued Asia
and a common human flu virus that public-health experts fear could turn
avian flu into a pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
CDC scientists inside an ultra-secure laboratory [?!?] have started
swapping the genes of the H5N1 avian virus with the genes of an H3N2
virus, the strain behind most recent human flu outbreaks.]

Bird
Flu Hits Sweden; Afghans Suspect It 15 Mar 2006 Sweden recorded
its first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain on Wednesday, saying
European laboratory tests confirm two wild birds found dead in the southeast
were infected with the virus. Afghan authorities, meanwhile, said preliminary
test results from a U.N. lab left them "99 percent certain" that the
country's first bird flu outbreak was the deadly H5N1 strain.

U.S.
bird flu pandemic ("final") solution - in addition to FEMA
camps and KBR'S
detention centres: Store
canned tuna and powdered milk under your bed.13 Mar 2006 In
a remarkable speech over the weekend, Secretary of Health and Human
Services Michael Leavitt recommended that Americans start storing canned
tuna and powdered milk under their beds as the prospect of a deadly
bird flu outbreak approaches the United States.

Bird
flu outbreak in U.S. could usher in 12-hour workdays 13 Mar
2006 Employers are planning for a few possible back-up scenarios...
Well employees might also be required to work longer shifts. Instead
of a typical eight-hour shift, demands due to shortages in manpower
would mean an extension to 10- or 12-hour shifts.

Bird
flu spreads to Myanmar, likely in Afghanistan 13 Mar 2006 Myanmar
has reported what is believed to be the secretive country's first case
of bird flu, while Afghanistan was checking on Monday to see if it is
the latest country to be infected by the deadly disease.

Donald
Rumsfeld makes $5m killing on bird flu drug 12 Mar 2006 Donald
Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu. The US Defence Secretary
has made more than $5m (£2.9m) in capital gains from selling shares
in the biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu, the
drug being bought in massive amounts by Governments to treat [sic] a
possible human pandemic of the disease.

Tamiflu
found ineffective in bird flu treatment 21 Dec 2005 The drug
most of the world is counting on to prevent an avian flu pandemic may
not be a failsafe defence, according to a New England Journal of Medicine
report. The authors say they have found evidence the H5N1 virus can
mutate into a form unaffected by Tamiflu -- rendering the world's ever-growing
stockpiles of the drug ineffective if the mutated strain were to spread.

Doctor
says bird flu drug is 'useless' 04 Dec 2005 A Vietnamese doctor
who has treated dozens of victims of avian flu claims the drug being
stockpiled around the world to combat a pandemic is "useless"
against the virus. "Tamiflu is really only meant for treating ordinary
type A flu. It was not designed to combat H5N1 . . . (Tamiflu) is useless,"Dr Nguyen
Tuong Van, who runs the intensive care unit at the Centre for Tropical
Diseases in Hanoi, said.

Chertoff:
Bird flu possible in U.S. within months 11 Mar 2006 Migratory
birds could carry the avian flu virus to U.S. shores in the next few
months, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warned Thursday.
See: U.S.
to create a bird flu virus mutation 24 Mar 2005 The
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun a series of
experiments to see how likely the bird flu virus could result in a human
pandemic. The six-month series of experiments seeks to simulate
the mixing and matching of genes from the H5N1 avian flu virus that
has plagued Asia and a common human flu virus that public-health experts
fear could turn avian flu into a pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported
Thursday. CDC scientists inside an ultra-secure laboratory [?!?] have
started swapping the genes of the H5N1 avian virus with the genes of
an H3N2 virus, the strain behind most recent human flu outbreaks.]

Bird
Flu Found in Weasel-Like Animal 09 Mar 2006 A German lab has
found the H5N1 bird flu virus in a weasel-like [Bush-like] animal called
a stone marten, officials said Thursday, marking the disease's spread
to another mammal species beyond cats.

Bird
flu 'heading for America' 09 Mar 2006 Bird flu could reach
the Americas in six to 12 months or even sooner following its rapid
expansion through Asia, Europe and Africa, the UN bird flu chief said
yesterday. [KBR is ready
for it!]

Bird
flu could hit Americas within a year: UN 08 Mar 2006 Bird flu,
already spreading across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, is
expected to jump across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas within a
year, a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday. [Or even sooner -
if Bush plays
the bioterror
card prior to his impeachment/treason trial. FEMA's camps and KBR's
detention
centres will be filled with those who defy the quarantines and refuse
the pharma-terrorists deadly vaccines;
Rudy Giuliani will make a *killing*
(literally) off of the clampdown
(as he did during Bush bin Laden's 9/11 attacks) and the Bush regime
will seize further dictatorial powers. --LRP]

Bird-flu
cats reject virus 07 Mar 2006 Three cats were at one point carriers
of the H5N1 bird flu virus in the southern Austrian province of Styria,
but two of them have since rejected the virus, says a health official.

Bird
Flu Spreads in Nigeria, Reaches Oil-Producing Delta Region 08
Mar 2006 Bird flu spread to three more Nigerian states, reaching the
oil-producing Delta region where attacks by gunmen on pipelines and
export terminals and kidnappings of workers in the past two months disrupted
supply. [LOL, looks like the terrorists running Exxon Mobil are poised
to blame *bird flu* for their next round of windfall profiteering!]

For
First Time, Flu Spreads From Birds 06 Mar 2006 Three cats have
tested positive for the deadly strain of bird flu in Austria's first
reported case of the disease spreading to an animal other than a bird,
state authorities said Monday.

Industry
caused the flu; why blame wild birds? By Ashok B Sharma 06 Mar
2006 "Not just in India, industrial poultry is the cause of the
spread of the bird flu outbreak worldwide. Several studies show that
transnational poultry industry is the root cause of the problem. The
spread of industrial poultry production and trade networks have created
ideal conditions for the emergence and transmission of lethal viruses
like the H5N1 strains of bird flu."

DoD
Officials Prepare for Possible Pandemic 01 Mar 2006 Defense
Department officials are working to create a pandemic influenza plan
[Yeah, KBR's detention
centres] in time for the Department of Homeland Defense's end-of-March
deadline, a DoD medical official said Feb. 27. [Just cut the word
'plan.' They are working to create an influenza pandemic, period. See:
U.S.
to create a bird flu virus mutation 24 Mar 2005 The
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun a series of
experiments to see how likely the bird flu virus could result in a human
pandemic. The six-month series of experiments seeks to simulate
the mixing and matching of genes from the H5N1 avian flu virus that
has plagued Asia and a common human flu virus that public-health experts
fear could turn avian flu into a pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported
Thursday. CDC scientists inside an ultra-secure laboratory [?!?] have
started swapping the genes of the H5N1 avian virus with the genes of
an H3N2 virus, the strain behind most recent human flu outbreaks.]

Calls
for bird flu military labs 02 Mar 2006 A military-style approach
is needed to counter the worldwide threat of H5N1 bird flu, it has been
claimed. US experts want to see a network of rapid-response laboratories
set up based on an existing military model established after the Second
World War.

Reigniting
Spanish flu 05 Oct 2005 The influenza strain that killed up
to 50 million people in the 1918 pandemic has been recreated by scientists.
...Other research shows close similarities between the 1918 Spanish
Flu virus and the H5N1 bird flu strain that is threatening the world
with a new pandemic. Researchers in the United States described how
they used a "reverse engineering" technique to re-construct Spanish
Flu.

Gene
From 1918 Virus Proves Key to Virulent Influenza (University
of Wisconsin Press Release) 06 Oct 2004 "Using a gene resurrected
from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, recorded
history's most lethal outbreak of infectious disease, scientists have
found that a single gene may have been responsible for the devastating
virulence of the virus. Writing Oct. 7 in the journal Nature, virologist
Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University
of Tokyo, describes experiments in which engineered
viruses were made more potent by the addition of a single gene.
The work is evidence that a slight genetic tweak is all that is required
to transform mild strains of the flu virus into forms far more pathogenic
and, possibly, more transmissible... Using a comparatively mild form
of influenza A virus as a template, Kawaoka's team added the two 1918
genes that code for hemagglutinin and neuraminidase and infected mice
with the engineered viruses."

Kofi
Annan expresses hope of "containing the spread of new infectious
diseases, whether natural or man-made"Transcript
of Press Conference by Secretary-General Kofi Annan At United Nations
Headquarters, 21 Mar 2005 "...[I]f governments take the
decisions that I am suggesting in this report, I believe we will have
a much better chance of turning the tide against HIV/AIDS and malaria
in the next 10 years; a much better chance of containing the spread
of new infectious diseases, whether natural
or man-made; ... -- through a strengthened Security
Council and a new and authoritative human rights council, both working
closely with regional organizations -- to put a stop to major crimes
against innocent people, such as those we are witnessing in Darfur."

Democrats
seek to repeal US vaccine liability law[passed in secret
by the GOP] 15 Feb 2006 Congressional Democrats on Wednesday introduced
legislation that would repeal a law that gives vaccine, drug and medical
device makers broad protection against lawsuits in a public health or
bioterror emergency. Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy and
20 other House and Senate Democrats wrote a letter to Republican leaders
saying, "The provision included in the bill is not limited to vaccines
for pandemic flu or other major threats to the nation's health, but
could instead be used to allow manufacturers of virtually any drug
or vaccine to escape responsibility for gross negligence or even criminal
acts."

When
the avian flu pandemic arrives, the corpora-terrorists will pressure
the Bush regime to make a vaccine mandatory, and there will be no recourse.
Do you really trust the people who brought you the response to Hurricane
Katrina (thousands dead) to handle a response to avian flu? Bush said
in October 2005 that he would consider using the military to "effect
a quarantine" in the event of an outbreak of pandemic influenza
in the United States. In January 2006, KBR was awarded a Homeland Security
contract worth up to $385M with four 1-year options to expand existing
ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event
of an emergency.

KBR
awarded $385M Homeland Security contract for U.S. detention centers
24 Jan 2006 KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton
Co., said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the
Department of Homeland Security to support its Immigration and Customs
Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency. The maximum total
value of the contract is $385 million and consists of a 1-year base
period with four 1-year options. The contract, which is effective immediately,
provides for establishing temporary detention
and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention
and Removal Operations Program facilities... The contract may also provide
migrant detention support to other government organizations in the event
of an immigration emergency [?!?], as well as the development
of a plan to react to a [Bush-created] national emergency,
the company said.

Factory
farms blamed for spread of bird flu 26 Feb 2006 Factory farming
and the international poultry trade are largely responsible for the
spread of bird flu, and wild birds are being unfairly blamed for the
disease, a new report says.

No
country safe from bird flu, vets say 28 Feb 2006 No country
should consider itself safe from lethal avian flu, veterinary chiefs
meeting in Paris said Tuesday, adding that it is “highly likely” that
the disease will continue its spread in poultry stocks in Europe and
beyond.

Germany
put on alert as cat dies of bird flu 01 Mar 2006 German officials
warned cat owners yesterday not to sleep accompanied by their pets,
and to keep them indoors, following confirmation that a cat has died
of the H5N1 avian flu virus.

Flamingo
Deaths Spark Bird Flu Probe in Bahamas 01 Mar 2006 Health experts
were dispatched on Tuesday to the southern Bahamas island of Inagua
to find out if an unexplained spate of bird deaths was linked to a deadly
bird flu virus... Over the past two days, 15 of the island's famed flamingos,
five roseate spoonbills and one cormorant have been found dead with
no external injuries on the island just north of Haiti, officials said.

Bird
Flu, Spreading in Africa, May Touch Off Pandemic 28 Feb 2006
Feathers littered on sandy soil and poultry coops filled with empty
wire are the few remaining signs of the 28,000 chickens Abdullahi Saidu
lost in a week to bird flu on his Nigerian farm last month.

Niger
confirms bird flu cases 27 Feb 2006 Niger has become the third
African country to confirm cases of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird
flu, a lab official said today.

Bird
Flu Raises Concerns in France and Nigeria 26 Feb 2006 The announcement
on Saturday that the deadly strain of bird flu was discovered in domesticated
turkeys in France has disrupted the country's $7 billion poultry market
and raised fears among the French that they could be vulnerable to the
disease.

Bird
flu: 'don't panic', UK told --Experts seek to reassure the
public after restaurant takes wild fowl off its menu and McDonald's
admits 'contingency plan' 26 Feb 2006 Britain's health industry
has launched a concerted effort to reassure the public about the safety
of poultry and eggs after the first restaurant in the country announced
it was taking wild fowl off the menu because of fears about bird flu...
The McDonald's chain also admitted it had emergency contingency plans
in place to replace all chicken products on its menus with alternative
items if avian flu reached Britain.

Bird
flu scare: Navapur to be sealed off 23 Feb 2006 (India) Officials
will begin sealing off the entire town of Navapur, ground zero for the
outbreak of bird flu. No one will be allowed
in or out of Navapur, which has a population of nearly 30,000.

Bird
flu moving freely from Asia to Europe and Africa 23 Feb 2006
Indonesia said a 27-year-old woman died of bird flu as it prepared to
scour the capital for infected poultry, while Malaysia and India expanded
the slaughter of chickens to try to contain the H5N1 virus.

'Europe
has no hope of eradicating bird flu' 23 Feb 2006 Europe has
"no hope of eradicating" the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in the foreseeable
future, now that there are infected wild birds across the European Union,
a senior bird flu expert said yesterday.

Deadly
Bird Flu Hits Seventh EU Nation 21 Feb 2006 Tests confirmed
H5N1 in three birds found dead in Hungary, making the country the seventh
EU nation with an outbreak of the deadly strain of bird flu, officials
said Tuesday.

EU
weighs immediate flu jab programme 21 Feb 2006 European veterinary
experts have met in Brussels to decide whether to grant controversial
requests from France and the Netherlands to begin an immediate programme
of "preventive vaccination" against avian flu.

Tower
Ravens Caged Over Bird Flu Threat 21 Feb 2006 The ravens at
the Tower of London have been moved indoors to protect them from the
threat of bird flu, the man in charge of the birds said Monday. According
to legend, if the ravens leave the 11th century fortress on the River
Thames, its White Tower will crumble and the Kingdom of England will
fall.

India
quarantines six as bird flu spreads faster 20 Feb 2006 India
quarantined six people in hospital on Monday and began a door-to-door search for anyone with fever as authorities
scrambled to contain the country's first outbreak of bird flu.

Study:
Containment can't stop flu pandemic 20 Feb 2006 Scientists say
they've concluded containment might buy time, but is not enough to stop
a flu pandemic. Through mathematical modeling, researchers at the Harvard
School of Public Health in Boston and Seattle's University of Washington
show flu outbreaks are likely to emerge in multiple locations and containment
of all outbreaks is improbable.

Killer
H5N1 virus spreads 19 Feb 2006 The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus
was identified today in India and Iran, continued to spread in Europe
and claimed another victim in Indonesia, though Nigeria claimed to be
bringing it under control.

Bird
Flu Spreads to India; Iraq Reports Second Death 18 Feb 2006
Bird flu spread to India, affecting dozens of poultry farms in the western
part of the country, while Iraq reported a second human fatality from
avian influenza, pushing the monthly global death tally to a two-year
high.

Bird
flu could hit Florida first17 Feb 2006 Gov. Jeb Bush expects
Florida to be among the first bird flu cases if a pandemic spreads to
the United States. In a visit to Florida, Health and Human Services
Secretary Michael Leavitt warned Thursday that bird flu could reach
the nation within 30 days - once it starts passing widely from person
to person. Bush predicts Florida would get the first wave... Quarantines
[!?!] are the start of the logistical challenges during a pandemic outbreak.
[Jeb Bush will be the first to get the police
state party started, and fill the FEMA camps and KBR's
detention centers. I saw this one marching down Broadway a mile
away. Out of the ashes of Jeb's police state and genocide of the sick
and poor (à la New Orleans) will arise a Reichwing clamor for him to
run for president in 2008, unless his brother has will have already
declared himself 'president' for life. --LRP]

Reigniting
Spanish flu 05 Oct 2005 The influenza strain that killed
up to 50 million people in the 1918 pandemic has been recreated by scientists.
...Other research shows close similarities between the 1918 Spanish
Flu virus and the H5N1 bird flu strain that is threatening the world
with a new pandemic. Researchers in the United
States described how they used a "reverse engineering" technique to
re-construct Spanish Flu. [Keep that sentence in mind
when you start to see KBR's detention centers filling up with avian
flu victims who refuse Bush's mandatory vaccines.]

Iraq:
Health alert in south warns of bird flu 16 Feb 2006 The Iraqi
government has raised a health alert in a southern governorate after
local laboratory tests confirmed the presence of the H5N1 bird flu virus
in dozens of birds in the area.

Niger:
Dead birds raise fears of bird flu 16 Feb 2006 The death of
at least 400 chickens, turkeys and geese in Niger – which shares a 1,500-kilometre
border with bird-flu-infected Nigeria – has government officials scurrying
to prevent the spread of the deadly virus.

Bird
flu could kill 214,000 Aussies 16 Feb 2006 A serious worldwide
outbreak of avian flu could kill up to 214,000 Australians, according
to new projections by experts. The research shows the world death toll
from a disastrous bird flu pandemic could be as high as 142 million,
or 2.2 per cent of the earth's population, Fairfax newspapers report.

Hastert,
Frist said to rig bill for drug firms 09 Feb 2006 Senate Majority
Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert engineered a backroom
legislative maneuver to protect pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits,
say witnesses to the pre-Christmas power play. The language was tucked
into a Defense Department appropriations bill at the last minute without
the approval of members of a House-Senate conference committee, say
several witnesses, including a top Republican staff member. Beyond the
issue of vaccine liability protection, some say going around the longstanding
practice of bipartisan House-Senate conference committees' working out
compromises on legislation is a dangerous power grab by Republican congressional
leaders that subverts democracy.

Public
Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act(Defense Department
FY2006 Appropriations bill) The new law providing vaccine makers with
protection against lawsuits --Among its key provisions are: It allows
the secretary of Health and Human Services to issue a declaration that
a "disease or other health condition or other threat to health constitutes
a public health emergency." The secretary may also issue a declaration
if there is a "credible risk" that there may be such a problem in the
future. Excludes any state or federal court from reviewing the secretary's
decisions under the law.

Democrats
seek to repeal US vaccine liability law[passed in secret
by the GOP] 15 Feb 2006 Congressional Democrats on Wednesday introduced
legislation that would repeal a law that gives vaccine, drug and medical
device makers broad protection against lawsuits in a public health or
bioterror emergency. Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy and
20 other House and Senate Democrats wrote a letter to Republican leaders
saying, "The provision included in the bill is not limited to vaccines
for pandemic flu or other major threats to the nation's health, but
could instead be used to allow manufacturers
of virtually any drug or vaccine to escape responsibility for gross
negligence or even criminal acts." [When the avian flu
pandemic arrives, the corpora-terrorists will pressue the Bush regime
to make a vaccine mandatory, and there will be no recourse. Do you
really trust the people who brought you the reponse to Hurricane Katrina
(thousands dead) to handle a response to avian flu? Bush said in October
2005 that he would consider using the military to "effect
a quarantine" in the event of an outbreak of pandemic influenza
in the United States. In January 2006, KBR was awarded a Homeland Security
contract worth up to $385M with four 1-year options to expand existing
ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event
of an emergency.]

Mass.
says Wal-Mart must stock morning-after pill 14 Feb 2006 A Massachusetts
regulatory board voted on Tuesday to require Wal-Mart stores to stock
morning-after contraceptives, two weeks after three women in the state
sued Wal-Mart for refusing to fill orders for the pills.

Bird
flu spreading across Europe 15 Feb 2006 Two swans found dead
in northern Germany have the virulent H5N1 bird flu virus, officials
say, marking the first such cases in the country.

U.S.
agency pushes electronic biosurveillance project 13 Feb 2006
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information
Technology is launching four new "breakthrough projects" designed to
help spur the adoption of electronic health records (EHR)... The biosurveillance
project will include the launch of a nationwide public health monitoring
network to be used during a pandemic or [Bush-engendered] bioterrorist
attack to send lab results electronically from emergency departments
to public health agencies within 24 hours. [Bush wants to be able
to round up dissenters, the poor, and the sick ASAP for FEMA's camps
and KBR's detention centers.]

Bird
flu spreads to Western Europe 13 Feb 2006 The dreaded H5N1 bird
flu virus has been detected in wild birds in Western Europe, the first
time its presence has been detected in the European Union, and further
cases have been reported in Indonesia and Nigeria.

Bird
flu spread by fleeing swans --Italy, Greece, Slovenia and Bulgaria
have taken emergency measures after deadly strain was found 13 Feb 2006
The deadly strain of H5N1 bird flu has been detected in four European
countries, carried by swans driven south by freezing weather in northern
Europe.

Get
ready for military-enforced quarantines,
KBR's detention
centers, and Bush's full-blown police
state: 08 Feb 2006 Dallas
Co. Approved to Test For Bird Flu Dallas County health officials
say they have received approval to conduct testing for the Bird Flu.
As far as medical officials know, the virus has not reached the United
States, but local health officials outlined how a possible Bird Flu
pandemic could quickly spread.

Bird
flu hits Italy 11 Feb 2006 The highly pathogenic strain of H5N1
bird flu has been detected in wild swans in Italy. According to Italian
health minister Francesco Storace, H5N1 was found in two dead swans
in Sicily on Saturday.

Several
wild birds killed by H5N1 flu in Italy 11 Feb 2006 Several wild
swans died of H5N1 in southern Italy, Health Minister Francesco Storace
said on Saturday, confirming the arrival in the European Union of the
strain of the bird flu virus that can be deadly for humans.

Spread
of Bird Flu Boosts Pandemic Chances 11 Feb 2006 The spread of
bird flu from Asia to eastern Europe and now west Africa has increased
the chance the virus will mutate and set off a pandemic, the U.N. bird
flu chief said.

'Highly
pathogenic' bird flu found in Nigeria 08 Feb 2006 A "highly
pathogenic" strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been 'found' [put?]
in poultry stocks in Nigeria? the first reported case of the disease
in Africa, the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health said
Wednesday.

Iraq
confirms second bird flu death 07 Feb 2006 A second Iraqi Kurd
has been confirmed to have died from the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain
as international teams scrambled to combat the spread of the virus in
the country's north.

WHO
sends Tamiflu to Iraq after bird flu confirmed 03 Feb 2006 The
World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that it was sending several
thousand courses of influenza drug Tamiflu to Iraq to help 'treat' any
further cases of deadly bird flu in humans.

Tamiflu
found ineffective in bird flu treatment 21 Dec 2005 The drug
most of the world is counting on to prevent an avian flu pandemic may
not be a failsafe defence, according to a New England Journal of Medicine
report. The authors say they have found evidence the H5N1 virus can
mutate into a form unaffected by Tamiflu -- rendering the world's ever-growing
stockpiles of the drug ineffective if the mutated strain were to spread.

Rumsfeld's
growing stake in Tamiflu --Defense Secretary, ex-chairman
of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing. 31
Oct 2005 The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people
around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors
in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights
to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after drug
in the world. Rumsfeld served as Gilead (Research)'s chairman from 1997
until he joined the Bush administration in 2001, and he still holds
a Gilead stake valued at between $5 million and $25 million, according
to federal financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld.

NORTHCOM
Prepares for Possible Pandemic 01 Feb 2006 U.S. Northern Command
recently hosted representatives from more than 40 international, federal
and state agencies for an exercise designed to provoke discussion and
determine what governmental actions, including military support, would
be necessary in the event of an influenza pandemic in the United States.
"NORTHCOM will not be running the show in the event of a pandemic,"
said Dave Wilkins, the NORTHCOM exercise facilitator. "We will be
taking guidance and requests from other agencies, such as the Department
of Homeland Security, via the secretary of defense."

Iraq
says treating 12 possible human bird flu cases 31 Jan 2006 Officials
in northern Iraq said on Tuesday they were treating 12 patients suspected
of having bird flu as a World Health Organization (WHO) team prepared
to travel to the area to give urgent 'assistance.'

Call
for drills to test bird flu readiness 01 Feb 2006 A plan prepared
by the UAE Armed Forces for intervention in case of an outbreak of bird
flu pandemic in the country was presented at the fourth meeting of the
Secretariat of the National Committee for Emergency Response to Bird
Flu.

I
saw *this one* marching down Broadway a mile away. Mandatory
vaccines and quarantines will soon commence, against the backdrop of
Bush's full-blown police state in Iraq, with absolutly NO media to report
U.S. acts of corpora-terrorism: Deadly
bird flu in Iraq 30 Jan 2006 A United Nations official confirmed
today that an Iraqi girl who died earlier this month in Kurdistan was
a bird flu victim. The official, who refused to be named... said the
girl was a victim of the deadly H5N1 strain.

Officials
Confirm Bird Flu Death of Iraqi 30 Jan 2006 Iraqi and U.N. health
officials said Monday a 15-year-old girl who died this month was a victim
of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, the first confirmed
case of the disease in the Middle East.

UN
may use 'flu-casters' if pandemic hits 28 Jan 2006 The United
Nations is considering using "flu-casters," modeled on television weather
forecasters, to publicize vital information if a global flu pandemic
strikes.

WHO
denies exaggerating bird flu threat 24 Jan 2006 The World Health
Organisation (WHO) has denied it is exaggerating the risk of a human
influenza pandemic, while China reports a 10th person has been diagnosed
with the potentially fatal bird flu virus.

Flu
drugs 'will not work' if pandemic strikes --No evidence Tamiflu
will be effective, say experts --Relying on medicines alone 'would
be suicidal' 19 Jan 2006 There is no evidence that Tamiflu, the
drug being stockpiled by Britain, the United States and Europe, will
work if a flu pandemic takes off in humans, according to a review published
today by the Lancet medical journal.

STMicro
to market chip to detect bird flu in humans 18 Jan 2006 STMicroelectronics
said on Wednesday it planned to market a disposable laboratory microchip
that can confirm within about an hour a human case of bird flu at a
limited cost. [This chip can enable the Bush regime to implement
a full-blown police state, as the government will forcibly quarantine
those who have avian flu.]

Time
of essence in bird flu fight, experts warn 17 Jan 2006 Bird
flu experts meeting in Beijing warned on Tuesday that time was of the
essence in battling a disease that has killed almost 80 people since
2003 and has now arrived at the gates of Europe and the Middle East.

British
firms form bird flu plans 15 Jan 2006 A survey of dozens of
British companies found more than 80 percent had made emergency plans
in the event bird flu mutates and spreads from human to human.

WHO
warns army may be needed to fight bird flu 13 Jan 2006 The World
Health Organisation yesterday predicted authorities might need to use
the army and police to quarantine about 120,000 people to contain aninitial
pandemic flu outbreak of just 19 cases. [If you think the illegal
NSA spying was a breach of civil liberties, wait until the bird flu
pandemic arrives at the Bush dictatorship's doorstep.]

Bird
flu 'spiralling out of control' 12 Jan 2006 The deadly bird
flu virus may be getting more effective at infecting humans, the World
Health Organisation believes, as experts warned that the disease was
spiralling out of control among poultry in Turkey and posed "a serious
threat" to neighbouring countries.

Outbreaks
of bird flu gather speed 10 Jan 2006 Bird flu is relentlessly
heading for Britain, experts warned yesterday, as five more children
in Turkey were found to have the disease.

'High
chance' of bird flu reaching Britain 10 Jan 2006 Bird flu took
another step towards Britain last night as three more people tested
positive for the deadly H5N1 strain in Turkey. The virus has already
claimed the lives of three people in the city of Ankara and scientists
say it is inevitable that it will eventually spread to Britain.

New
Turkish bird flu infection confirmed 10 Jan 2006 Another person
in Turkey today tested positive for the virulent H5N1 strain of bird
flu, a health ministry official said. It brings the number of people
to have contracted the disease in the country to 15.

Lock
them up to die - prison bird flu plan 08 Jan 2006 Government
planning documents reveal that the 'most dangerous' prisoners would
be locked away and left to take their chances and the dead buried in
mass graves, if an Asian bird flu epidemic hits New Zealand's prison
population. Entire prisons would be sealed - nobody would be allowed
in or out for up to six weeks - and mass graves would be dug in prison
compounds to dispose of bodies. The proposals, details of which were
obtained by the Sunday Star-Times, are part of Corrections Department
contingency plans to deal with an Asian bird flu pandemic hitting New
Zealand and its 7500 prison population. [What is Bush's prison bird
flu plan?]

Bird
flu plan for prisons draws civil liberty concerns 08 Jan 2006
A reported proposal that the 'most dangerous' prisoners [?!?] should
remain locked away and left to take their chances if an Asian bird flu
pandemic hit New Zealand has been attacked by civil libertarians.

Human
bird flu cases reach Turkish capital 08 Jan 2006 Three Turks
tested positive for a deadly strain of bird flu in the capital Ankara
on Sunday, a new stage in the westward sweep of the disease from its
east Asian origins toward major economic centres in Turkey and Europe.

Deadly
bird flu outbreak spreads 08 Jan 2006 Bird flu in humans appears
to be spreading in Turkey, with preliminary tests for the deadly H5N1
strain returned positive in three people in Ankara, the first suspected
cases outside the eastern city of Van, where at least two siblings have
died in the past week.

UK
told not to panic over bird flu 05 Jan 2006 A leading microbiologist
urged the British public not to panic as bird flu crept closer towards
central Europe with two people dying in Turkey from the virus.

Bad
vaccines may trigger bird flu: expert 29 Dec 2005 China is most
likely using substandard poultry vaccine or not enough good vaccine,
which would explain recent outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus
in poultry, a prominent virologist said on Thursday. Dr Robert Webster,
of St Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, said the problem
of substandard vaccines was not exclusive to China. [And, that is
Bush's main reason behind making the deadly vaccines mandatory and removing
all manufacturer liability. When the bird flu pandemic arrives, Bush
will invoke police-state measures and quarantines, while he pursues
further dictatorial power.]

From
the people who brought you FEMA: US
uses live bird flu viruses in vaccine experiment 18 Dec 2005
In an isolation ward of a Baltimore hospital, up to 30 'volunteers'
will participate this April in a bold experiment: A vaccine made with
a live version of the most notorious bird flu
will be sprayed into their noses. [The Bush bioterror team is in
a hurry to get the pandemic party started, in order to implement a full-blown
police state. Dictator Bush needs to justify his warrantless eavesdropping
and to insure re-authorization of the Patriot Act.]

U.S.
[Bioterror] Team Will Test Live-Virus 18 Dec 2005 Bird Flu Vaccine
Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health will soon recruit
30 human volunteers to test the effectiveness of a vaccine containing
a live but weakened form of the H5N1 bird flu virus.

U.S.
House approves $3.8 billion for avian flu[for pharma-terrorists]
19 Dec 2005 The U.S. House of Representatives early on Monday approved
$3.78 billion to begin preparations for a possible [Bush-engendered]
avian flu epidemic. The bill would also shield manufacturers of vaccines
and drugs from lawsuits during an epidemic. The legislation, wrapped
into an unrelated defense bill, still faces an uncertain
fate in the Senate later this week.

House
OKs Liability Protections for Drug Makers 19 Dec 2005 Drug manufacturers
are a step closer toward winning the liability protections they say
they need before investing in medicines to combat a bird flu pandemic.
Opponents described the protections, approved early Monday by the House,
as a "massive Christmas bonus to the drug companies."
Consumers seeking damages on claims they were harmed by a vaccine would
have to prove willful misconduct on the part of the drug manufacturers.

Bird-Flu
Bill Slammed as Loophole for Drugmakers 19 Dec 2005 Bird flu
preparedness legislation headed for a final vote in the Senate this
week would create loopholes allowing vaccine makers to avoid legal liability
even if a patient is harmed by negligence, critics said today.

Ruffled
feathers--UF professor says bird flu is not a threat in
the U.S. 18 Dec 2005 Researchers and health agencies continue to
sound the alarm about avian flu, and Dr. Gary Butcher, an expert on
poultry medicine and disease at the University of Florida's College
of Veterinary Medicine thinks he knows why. "The agenda here is pretty
obvious," he said. "People want grant money. This is a bonanza."

White
House holds bird flu drill with military leaders 10 Dec 2005
Warning an outbreak may be inevitable, the White House on Saturday conducted
a test of its readiness for a feared bird flu pandemic and said federal
agencies fared "quite well" [Yes, they did so well with Hurricane
Katrina, I can hardly wait for their response to a bird flu pandemic.]
without offering any details. Cabinet secretaries, military leaders
and other top officials took part in the four-hour tabletop drill, which
officials said was designed to assess the level of federal preparedness
for a possible outbreak of bird flu or another deadly virus. "This is
about being ready for what inevitably will come," Health and Human Services
Secretary Michael Leavitt said. [How does Leavitt know that a pandemic
is 'inevitable?' Apparently, the Bush bioterror team is ready to attack,
and a full-blown police state is surely on the way.]

Britain
could grind to a halt in a bird flu pandemic, experts fear[We
know the civil liberties sure will!] 11 Dec 2005 Britain is not
as prepared for bird flu as it should be, an influential Lords committee
will say this week, because thousands of companies have not investigated
how they would keep going during a pandemic that could last four months
and affect a quarter of their employees.

Reports
detail bird flu effects on U.S. 09 Dec 2005 A pandemic of bird
flu could cause a serious recession of the U.S. economy, with immediate
costs of between $500 billion and $675 billion, according to two estimates
released on Thursday.

U.S.
Urges States to Prepare for Bird Flu 06 Dec 2005 Health and
Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt urged each state on Monday to
prepare for the possibility of a [Bush-engendered] deadly bird flu pandemic
by holding its own planning summit within the next four months.

Secretive
agency proposed to develop vaccines, drugs[to facilitate
Bush bioterror attacks] 03 Dec 2005 The proposed Biomedical Advanced
Research and Development Agency, or BARDA, would be exempt from long-standing
open records and meetings laws that apply to most government departments,
according to legislation approved Oct. 18 by the Senate health committee.
The agency would be exempt from the Freedom of Information and Federal
Advisory Committee acts, both considered crucial for monitoring government
accountability.

Doctor
says bird flu drug is 'useless' 04 Dec 2005 A Vietnamese doctor
who has treated dozens of victims of avian flu claims the drug being
stockpiled around the world to combat a pandemic is "useless"
against the virus. "Tamiflu is really only meant for treating ordinary
type A flu. It was not designed to combat H5N1 . . . (Tamiflu) is useless,"Dr Nguyen
Tuong Van, who runs the intensive care unit at the Centre for Tropical
Diseases in Hanoi, said. [LOL!! See: Rumsfeld's
growing stake in Tamiflu31 Oct 2005 Defense Secretary, ex-chairman
of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing. The prospect
of a bird flu outbreak... is proving to be very good news for Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors
in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights
to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after (*useless!*)
drug in the world.]

U.S.
Builds Stockpile of Vaccine for Flu Pandemic 30 Nov 2005 The
government expects to stockpile nearly 8 million doses of an experimental
vaccine 'against' [to start] pandemic influenza by February,
and studies are underway that could stretch that supply to cover more
than a third of the population, federal health experts said yesterday.

Virus
spreads 'all over' Jakarta 26 Nov 2005 Bird flu has been detected
throughout the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, with the country's Agriculture
Minister Anton Apriyantono admitting: "It's very serious. Based on our
research, the virus has spread all over the city."

CDC
Updates Rules, Outlines Gov't Procedures to Quarantine People
22 Nov 2005 Travelers entering the U.S. with fever and other flu-like
symptoms would be reported by the airline or ship that brought them,
under new rules proposed today, a U.S. public-health official said.
When "compatible symptoms are noticed in a passenger on a flight
or ship, there will be a requirement for the captain to report it to
the quarantine station that has jurisdiction over that port of entry''
for medical personnel to assess them, Martin Cetron, director of the
CDC's Division of Global Migration and Quarantine [?!?], said today.
The proposal also outlines procedures for government orders to quarantine
people, and for how a person may appeal an order.

CDC
Seeks Authority During Quarantines, Easy Access to Passenger Lists
22 Nov 2005 Federal health officials are seeking to update quarantine
and contact-tracing regulations... The proposed changes, announced Tuesday
by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, include easier
CDC access to airline and ship passenger lists, a clearer appeals process
for people [think Jose Padilla] subjected to quarantines, and explicit
authority to offer [force?] vaccinations and medical treatment to quarantined
people.

U.S.
Bans Imports of Some Canadian Poultry 22 Nov 2005 Federal agriculture
officials banned poultry imports from mainland British Columbia on Monday
after Canadian officials reported finding a duck at a poultry farm that
was infected with the flu.

U.N.
to set up bird flu early warning system 18 Nov 2005 The United
Nations is to set up a bird flu early warning system to alert countries
of incoming migratory birds which could be carrying the deadly virus,
a U.N. official said on Friday.

Vaccine
Funding Tied to Liability --Trial Lawyers Say Move Would
Hurt Consumers 17 Nov 2005 Legislation that would pour billions
of dollars into the production of vaccines against avian flu and other
pandemic diseases is threatened by the trial lawyers' lobby, which objects
to proposed limits on lawsuits against drug manufacturers... "The Republican
leadership in Congress is trying to do another special favor for drug
companies by slipping a provision into a massive spending bill to absolve
the pharmaceutical industry of any responsibility to patients injured
by dangerous drugs or vaccines," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) said.

FDA
probes deaths of Tamiflu patients 17 Nov 2005 U.S. regulators
have asked Roche AG for more information about the deaths of 12 children
who took the flu-fighting drug Tamiflu, saying in a report released
on Thursday that the cause of the deaths was "extremely difficult to
interpret." [Oops! There goes Rumsfeld's stock portfolio! See:
Rumsfeld's
growing stake in Tamiflu 31 Oct 2005 Defense Secretary, ex-chairman
of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing.]

Deaths
Among Roche Tamiflu Users Get U.S. FDA Review 17 Nov 2005 U.S.
regulators will review the deaths of 12 Japanese children who took Roche
Holding AG's Tamiflu influenza medicine, being stockpiled worldwide
as the best likely treatment for bird flu. Four were due to "sudden
death, an unusual phenomenon in otherwise healthy'' people 16 and under,
the Food and Drug Administration said in a report posted today on its
Web site.

China
Reports Three Human Bird-Flu Cases 16 Nov 2005 China confirmed
its first two human cases of bird flu on the mainland Wednesday, including
at least one fatality, as the government raced to vaccinate billions
of chickens, ducks and other poultry in a massive effort to stop the
spread of the virus.

50
birds died at quarantine centre 15 Nov 2005 The Government was
criticised today for "confusion" surrounding its handling of the bird
flu outbreak at a quarantine centre in Essex. More than 50 birds died
at the facility where H5N1 was found, a report published by Defra says.

Bird
flu spreads to 10 provinces of Vietnam 14 Nov 2005 Bird flu
outbreaks among poultry have spread to 10 of Vietnam's 64 provinces
and cities, officials said, after the country's prime minister described
the fight against avian influenza as urgent.

Tamiflu
linked to deaths of 2 teens 12 Nov 2005 (Japan) Two teenage
boys who took the antiviral drug Tamiflu exhibited abnormal behavior
that led to their deaths, with one jumping in front of an oncoming truck
last year and the other falling from the ninth floor of a building earlier
this year, health ministry and other sources said Saturday. The drug
in Japan carries a note listing impaired consciousness, abnormal behaviors,
hallucination and other psychological and neurological symptoms as possible
serious side effects. The ministry is considering making a fresh warning
about them, following its decision to increase the stockpile of the
drug amid growing fears about a possible pandemic of a new type of influenza
as bird flu deaths rise across Asia.

Rumsfeld's
growing stake in Tamiflu --Defense Secretary, ex-chairman
of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing. 31
Oct 2005 The prospect of a bird flu outbreak is proving to be very good
news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected
investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns
the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought
after drug in the world. Rumsfeld served as Gilead's chairman from 1997
until he joined the Bush regime in 2001, and he still holds a Gilead
stake valued at between $5 million and $25 million, according to federal
financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld.

Did
U.S. government lie about deadly virus? (World Science) 09 Nov
2005 "U.S. officials seem to have quietly reversed an assurance
they gave publicly last month—that a deadly virus, which scientists
recently recreated, would not leave a secure government facility. Now,
authorities acknowledge they may mail copies of the germ, which killed
an estimated 50 million people in 1918, to qualified laboratories that
apply for it."

US
health officials can detain or isolate any airline passengers
11 Nov 2005 U.S. airlines could be on the front lines in a bird flu
outbreak and federal health officials are streamlining procedures for
the possible quarantine of sick passengers. Federal health officials
have authority to detain or isolate any airline passenger suspected
of harboring the avian flu virus, which scientists fear could mutate
to leap from person to person and quickly spread globally.

Bird
Flu hits the Middle East 11 Nov 2005 A flamingo found on a beach
in Kuwait had the strain of bird flu that has killed more than 60 people
and devastated poultry stocks in Asia — the first known case of the
deadly avian flu in the Arab world. [Possibly, the only thing more
*un*welcome than the US invaders, although I can see it being a 'tie.'
At least the avian flu virus has a sunset gene programmed into it -
Halliburton and Bush do not. --Lori Price]

Deadly
flu strain in Kuwait flamingo 11 Nov 2005 A migrating flamingo,
one of two birds found infected with bird flu in Kuwait, is confirmed
to have been carrying the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus.

CDC
may ship killer virus to U.S. labs --Millions around the world
died from Spanish flu in 1918 09 Nov 2005 Federal scientists say they
will consider requests to ship the recently recreated 1918 killer flu
virus to select U.S. research labs. Last month, U.S. scientists announced
they
had created — from scratch — the 1918 virus. It
was the first time an infectious agent behind a historic global epidemic
had ever been reconstructed.

CDC
Will Allow 1918 Killer Flu Off Campus 09 Nov 2005 Federal scientists
say they will consider requests to ship the recently recreated 1918
killer flu virus to select U.S. research labs. There are 300 non-government
research labs registered to work with deadly germs like the Spanish
flu, which killed millions of people worldwide.

WHO
warns pandemic could cost $800B, kill millions 08 Nov 2005 Countries
around the world need to start rehearsing plans for tackling a human
flu pandemic to identify hidden obstacles and ensure the best response
once the virus arrives, the World Health Organization said yesterday.

Bird
flu capable of causing 'incalculable' misery --100-nation meeting
focuses on plans to contain outbreak 08 Nov 2005 Delegates from 100
nations meeting at the World Health Organization headquarters here were
urged Monday to prepare against the avian flu or risk a human pandemic
that scientists fear could kill millions and cause up to $800 billion
in economic damage worldwide.

Flu
pandemic now just a matter of time, conference told 07 Nov 2005
A three-day council of war on avian influenza opened here to warnings
that a flu pandemic was inevitable, could kill millions and inflict
up to 800 billion dollars in economic damage if the world failed to
defend itself.

DoD's
Pandemic Flu Web Site Goes Live 07 Nov 2005 In partnership with
other federal agencies, the Defense Department's Deployment Health Support
Directorate went 'live' today with a Web site to help meet the objectives
outlined in Dictator Bush's national 'strategy' for pandemic influenza.

Rummy's
bird flu bonanza/Blair backer's smallpox bonanza (gmwatch.org)
06 Nov 2005 "...It appears that the defense secretary is quite
an accomplished hand at getting the government to buy vaccines from
companies in which he has a direct financial interest. ...Rumsfeld at
that time [just after 9/11] ordered members of the armed forces to be
inoculated against smallpox, an inoculation with horrendous side effects.
The package also included injection with a drug named Vistide, to treat
side-effects of smallpox infection should it occur. Vistide was also
a product of Gilead Sciences... [Rumsfeld holds a Gilead stake valued
at between $5 million and $25 million, according to his federal financial
disclosures.]"

Watch
That Pea: What the administration is doing while you're watching Scooter
& Sammy By John M. Kelley 04 Nov 2005 "Given this administrations
willingness to ignore public opinion and forge on in spite of its mistakes,
exposed lies and corruption it is not a far stretch to imagine what
kind of power it might try and seize in case of a national emergency
like a flu pandemic. If you think the last two elections have been a
farce, what about no election because of a pandemic, what about the
suspension of congress and the prohibition of any public gathering enforced
by the military. Maybe I’m just paranoid, but then again maybe anybody
who believes this administration is on the run hasn’t been reading past
the headlines."

Long-Predicted
Flu Finally Tops National Agenda 07 Nov 2005 The Pandemic influenza
threat has taken a tortuous route to a place occupied by few health
issues. Last month, scientists completed a 10-year project in which
they reconstructed the 1918 virus from the frozen and chemically preserved
tissue of three victims. [WHY isn't anyone asking WHY this deadly
virus was reconstructed? See: Rumsfeld's
growing stake in Tamiflu 31 Oct 2005 Defense Secretary, ex-chairman
of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing.]

Flu
Plan Counts on Public Cooperation --Strategies Include Inoculations
for High-Risk Groups, Isolating [Quarantining] People at Home 03
Nov 2005 The federal government unveiled a massive pandemic influenza
plan yesterday that would fight an outbreak with tools including surveillance
of air travelers, rationing antiviral drugs, imposing community-wide
"snow days" to keep people at home and aggressively
controlling rumors to prevent panic. [Translation: censoring
journalists that dare to tell the truth. Earth to Bush: We are not going
to accept any 'bird flu clampdown.']

Governors
Balk at Bigger Role for Military 06 Nov 2005 Several governors
have been critical of a Bush administration suggestion that the active-duty
military take a greater role in disaster response, calling it an attempt
to usurp state authority over National Guard units. Governors in Washington,
Mississippi, Michigan, Arkansas, West Virginia, Delaware and Alabama
are among those who have panned the idea, questioning whether it would
even be constitutional. [Look for Bush's bioterror team to first
strike Washington, Mississippi, Michigan, Arkansas, West Virginia, Delaware
and Alabama.]

Frist
urges germ spies--Bill would cloak war on bioterror
05 Nov 2005 A bill moving rapidly through the Senate would create a
secretive national research center to respond to bioterrorism threats
and natural [manmade] disease outbreaks. The bill, co-sponsored by Senate
Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Bioterrorist-Tenn.), would shift the main
responsibility for developing bioterrorism countermeasures out of the
Department of Homeland Security and into a new Biological Advanced Research
and Development Agency in the Department of Health and Human Services.
The agency, commonly referred to as BARDA, would be given a first-year
budget of $1 billion and some unusually strong powers. It would have
authority to shield drug manufacturers from liability lawsuits in the
event a drug used to counteract a bioterrorism event or disease outbreak
caused death or injury. It also would be granted a blanket exemption
from the federal Freedom of Information Act.

Sentries
in U.S. Seek Early Signs of the Avian Flu 06 Nov 2005 With the
country waiting nervously for avian flu to arrive, catching wild birds
is no hobby. Hundreds of ornithologists, veterinarians, amateur bird-watchers,
park rangers and others being recruited by the National Wildlife Health
Center to join a surveillance effort along the major American migratory
flyways...

FluWrap:
Three new Asian outbreaks 04 Nov 2005 Avian influenza affected
three Asian countries Friday, with confirmed outbreaks in China and
Vietnam and indications of an outbreak in Japan.

Britain
to head European flu pandemic exercise 04 Nov 2005 Britain will
stage a surprise exercise involving 28 European countries to test their
ability to cope with a human influenza pandemic, the project's director
said on Friday. The two-day drill will take place before the end of
the year but health services will not know the precise dates in advance
in order to make it as realistic as possible. [Will the 'exercise'
happen to coincide with an actual bioterror event? 'Anti-'terror exercises
took place prior to the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks.]

Singapore's
bird park turns chickens into flu police 05 Nov 2005 As Asian
governments keep a lookout for new cases of bird flu, Singapore is deploying
some unlikely "flu police" at the world's largest bird park: chickens.
Singapore's Jurong Bird Park has put 19 chickens, known as "sentinel
chickens", in all its aviaries to help detect the presence of any infectious
disease. "These chickens are bred without any immunity. So they will
be the first ones to fall ill if there is an outbreak of bird flu or
other infectious diseases at the park," Wong Hon Mun, executive director
of Jurong Bird Park, told Reuters. [Can we get FEMA's Mike Brown
to be bred for that task here in the U.S.?]

Recession
alert over bird flu 04 Nov 2005 New bird flu outbreaks have
been reported as the Asian Development Bank warns that a global flu
pandemic could kill up to 3 million people in Asia and plunge the world
into recession.

Pandemic
Is Inevitable, Govt. Officials Say --Doctors Believe our Health
Care System 'Will Collapse' When It [Bush's excuse to end all domestic
programs] Comes 02 Nov 2005 It's inevitable, say government officials:
a pandemic will strike the United States and the impact will be profound...
A Jerry Bruckheimer film? Not according to information released by the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "Pandemics happen," said
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt in a teleconference today. "They happened
before, and they'll happen again. If it isn't
the H5N1 [bird flu] virus, it'll be another virus." [How
does he know? Well, I am sure the 78
dead microbiologists were working on *something.*]

Pandemic
response plan includes travel restrictions, rationing 02 Nov
2005 Issuing its long-awaited pandemic response plan Wednesday, the
Bush regime made clear that a flu pandemic could make it necessary to
impose travel restrictions, shut down schools and businesses, quarantine
cities and ban public gatherings.

Experts
dismiss scare over bird flu 02 Nov 2005 Gary Butcher, Ph.D.,
said that although there is a potential that the virus could mutate,
as it exists, it could not become an important disease in humans. "For
it to become dangerous to humans, it has to go through a pretty significant
genetic change. If you put this in perspective, it's not going to happen.
For a person to be infected now, it appears that the exposure level
has to be astronomical," Butcher said.

Bush's
avian flu 'protection' plans are for the birds:MSNBC
Question of the Day "Do you trust the [US] government to
protect you from the bird flu?" 12018 responses Yes 13% No
87% [Poll snapshot: 23:16 EST 01 Nov 2005]

Bush
asks Congress for $70m for flu vaccine 01 Nov 2005 US Dictator
George Bush today outlined a 5.9bn strategy today to prepare for the
danger of a pandemic influenza outbreak, saying he wanted to stockpile
enough vaccine to protect [sic] 20 million Americans against an illness
caused by the current strain of bird flu.

Bush:
$7.1B to Thwart Bird Flu --Dictator Bush unveils a plan to
prepare for a flu pandemic by strengthening the U.S. vaccine industry.
01 Nove 2005 Dictator George W. Bush on Tuesday proposed a $7.1-billion
campaign to thwart [foment] a possible pandemic of avian flu by producing
20 million doses of vaccine, stockpiling treatments, and shielding manufacturers
from liability.

Rumsfeld's
growing stake in Tamiflu --Defense Secretary, ex-chairman
of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing. 31
Oct 2005 The prospect of a bird flu outbreak is proving to be very good
news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected
investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns
the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought
after drug in the world. Rumsfeld served as Gilead's chairman from 1997
until he joined the Bush regime in 2001, and he still holds a Gilead
stake valued at between $5 million and $25 million, according to federal
financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld. The forms don't reveal the
exact number of shares Rumsfeld owns, but in the past six months fears
of a pandemic and the ensuing scramble for Tamiflu have sent Gilead's
stock from $35 to $47.

Mild
Version of Avian Flu Has Already Hit Conn. 30 Oct 2005 Mild
versions of the avian virus have appeared off and on in the United States
for years, including a strain that infected thousands of laying hens
at the largest egg farm in Connecticut two years ago.

Government
to Unveil Super-Flu Strategy 29 Oct 2005 The Bush regime's long-awaited
plan on how to fight [foment] the next super-flu will likely include
beefed-up attempts to spot human infections early, both here and abroad.
Expect recommendations on how to 'isolate the sick' [i.e., invoke
martial law, suspend Posse
Comitatus, enforce quarantines and fill FEMA's concentration camps
with those who don't want the mandatory, deadly vaccines.] "If it
isn't the current H5N1 virus that leads to an influenza pandemic, at
some point in our nation's future another virus will," Health and Human
Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said last week.

Mega
Barf Alert of 2005:Scientists
aim to beat flu with genetically modified chickens 29 Oct 2005
The long-term threat of an avian flu pandemic could be greatly reduced
by a project to produce genetically modified chickens that can resist
lethal strains of the virus. British scientists are genetically engineering
chickens to protect them against the H5N1 virus, with a view to replacing
stocks with birds that are not susceptible to influenza.

Army
alert on bird flu 30 Oct 2005 Australian army engineers and
emergency services teams could be drafted in to dispose of bodies in
mass graves if the death toll from a bird flu epidemic soars. Australian
health authorities are also considering introducing communal burials
and mandatory cremations.

Bird
flu to hit Africa within weeks: UN expert (AM Transcript) 29
Oct 2005 "ELIZABETH JACKSON: The United Nations top expert on bird
flu says the fatal virus will hit Africa within weeks, and it could
be the most dangerous development yet in the spread of the fatal disease.
Dr Joseph Domenech from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation is
warning that Africa might not be able to contain the outbreak quickly,
which could create a greater chance for the virus to jump from birds
to humans."

Tamiflu
Gilead Chair Was ... Rummy (FreeMarketNews.com) 21 Oct 2005
"...Donald Rumsfeld, until he resigned and joined the Bush Administration,
was the chairman of something called Gilead which just happened to make
something called Tamiflu. Now anyone who hasn't been on Mars for the
last month or two, knows that there were only two things that were going
to stop the human version of bird flu. One was a bird flu vaccine (which
probably would work better if you were a bird) and the other was something
called Tamiflu."

UK
says two parrots had lethal flu 26 Oct 2005 The UK Government
is to bring forward new regulations to combat the threat of a bird flu
pandemic after it was revealed that a second parrot in quarantine probably
died from the lethal strain of the disease.

Traveller
may have H5N1 bird flu 26 Oct 2005 Preliminary tests conducted
on a 43-year-old man who returned to the French island of Reunion after
a trip to Thailand have indicated he may have the H5N1 bird flu virus,
authorities have said.

Bird
Flu Scam to Cost Us Plenty By John Hanchette 25 Oct 2005 "...[P]roposed
legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if
they are harmed by either an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine
they are forced by the government to take whenever federal health officials
declare a public health emergency... "This proposed legislation," said
NVIC's Fisher [Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine
Information Center], "like the power and money grab by federal health
officials and industry in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the
Project Bioshield Act of 2004, is an unconstitutional attempt by some
in Congress to give a taxpayer-funded handout to pharmaceutical companies
for drugs and vaccines." Further, Fisher points out, the government,
under this bill, "could force all citizens to use these drugs and
vaccines while absolving everyone connected from any responsibility
for injuries and deaths which occur" in their wake.

Urgent
CLG Action!! By Pamela "Here
is the list of politicians pushing for us to face forced vaccines and
forced drugging with untested/experimental drugs and vaccines giving
freedom from liability to drug companies. Contact them ALL. Keep this
list of these traitors for your voting records. They ALL need to go!
This bill is called 'The Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development
Act of 2005.' You will find the wording under Senate Bill 1873 [S. 1873]."

Bird
flu could hit U.S. next year 25 Oct 2005 Could bird flu reach
North America through migrating birds? Biologists in Alaska and Canada
are keeping an eye out and say it's possible by next year.

Bird
flu may have been brought into UK earlier than thought 25 Oct
2005 The possibility that bird flu could already be present in Britain
is being studied by Government vets who are investigating whether the
potentially lethal strain contaminated a quarantine "facility" in Essex
much earlier than thought.

Taiwanese
slam British vets 24 Oct 2005 A top Taiwanese health official
on Monday called British veterinary experts irresponsible for saying
a South American parrot infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird
flu picked up the virus from Taiwanese birds in British quarantine.

Dead
parrot bird flu is H5N1 strain 23 Oct 2005 The parrot which
died in quarantine in the UK has tested positive for the deadly H5N1
strain of the bird flu virus, the Department for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs has said.

Warning
over 'unique' spread of avian flu 22 Oct 2005 The avian flu
- recently arrived in the UK - which is causing chaos around the world
is "unique" because of the simultaneous way in which it is spreading,
a veterinary expert has warned. [LOL, 'unique.' Looks like the Bush
bioterror team is a busy little bee, poised to start the mandatory
vaccines with no legal
liablity for the pharma-terrorists.]

Bird
flu reaches Britain 22 Oct 2005 The first case of bird flu has
been found in Britain, the Government said last night. The Department
for Environment Food and Rural Affairs said that a parrot has died from
bird flu in quarantine.

The
clock ticks on economic collapse--A pandemic is a case of 'when,
not if', says the WHO, and global recession could follow. 22 Oct 2005
In Washington, the US government is hurriedly upgrading its estimate
of the likely damage, concluding that a full avian flu outbreak could
kill 1.9m Americans and cost the US economy $450billion.

Russian
MP Calls Bird Flu "American Provocation" 21 Oct 2005
A deputy of the ultranationalist Liberal Democratic faction of the Russian
State Duma, Aleksei Mitrofanov, has said in a parliamentary speech that
bird flu was invented by Americans who wanted to dominate the world’s
poultry markets.

Congress
Set to Pass Law Eliminating Liability For Vaccine Injuries 19
Oct 2005 The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the
"Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005" (S.
1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after
it was introduced "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's
worst nightmare." ...The bill establishes
the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA), as
the single point of authority within the government for the advanced
research and development of drugs and vaccines in response to bioterrorism
and natural disease outbreaks such as the flu. BARDA will operate in
secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, insuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths caused
by drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" will become public.

Urgent
CLG Action!! By Pamela "Here
is the list of politicians pushing for us to face forced vaccines and
forced drugging with untested/experimental drugs and vaccines giving
freedom from liability to drug companies. Contact them ALL. Keep this
list of these traitors for your voting records. They ALL need to go!
This bill is called 'The Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development
Act of 2005.' You will find the wording under Senate Bill 1873 [S. 1873]."

UK
population to be vaccinated against pandemic flu 19 Oct 2005
Plans to vaccinate everyone in the UK against [?!?] pandemic flu once
a potentially-fatal strain emerges were announced by the British government
today. [How is the government *so certain* that a 'potentially-fatal
strain' will emerge?]

Russia
finds deadly strain of bird flu 19 Oct 2005 Preliminary tests
on fowl from a region south of Moscow where hundreds of birds died suddenly
detected a deadly strain of bird flu, Russia said Wednesday, bolstering
signs that the dreaded virus might be spreading across Siberia to the
Mediterranean.

EU
says bird flu is 'global threat' 18 Oct 2005 The European Union
has declared the spread of bird flu from Asia into the EU a "global
threat" requiring international co-operation, saying western Europe
was ill prepared to deal with an influenza emergency.

Experts
say threat from virus is unprecedented 18 Oct 2005 The bird
flu virus that has arrived in Europe poses an unprecedented threat,
with experts warning that the number of human infections reported in
Asia could be just a small proportion of the actual figure.

Bird
flu reaches EU as Greece finds virus 17 Oct 2005 Greece said
on Monday it had detected one turkey with bird flu on the eastern Aegean
island of Chios, becoming the first EU country where the virus has spread
to.

The
Fear Contagion--A Flu Quarantine? No, Sir By Wendy Orent
16 Oct 2005 "A few scientists have suggested 'priming' people
with a dose of the new vaccine against H5N1 before we even know whether
a pandemic is coming... Earlier this month, he [Bush] suggested
using the military to enforce a quarantine...This is an example of a
cure that is as frightening as the disease. It is hard to imagine how
the military would oversee a quarantined area. If a health worker,
drug addict or teenager attempted to break the quarantine, what would
soldiers do? Shoot on sight? ...Suppose that a government official
today decided to round up exposed people and move them to a space like the Superdome in New Orleans. ...[D]epending
on how densely packed people were, you could expect the flu strain trapped
among them to increase in virulence. You'd be breeding a deadlier flu."

Virulent
strain of bird flu 'could kill 750,000' 17 Oct 2005 At least
50,000 British citizens will die in the event of an avian flu pandemic,
according to Sir Liam Donaldson, the Government’s chief medical officer.
He also made clear yesterday that the total deaths could reach 750,000
if the strain of the flu were virulent.

Pharmas
Seek Flu Vaccine Suit Shield 15 Oct 2005 In Europe, Asia, South
and North America governments clamor for bird flu vaccines - and they
may have them so long as the pharmaceutical companies are indemnified
against lawsuits. The U.S. Senate has already approved an amendment
adding $3.9 billion to a military
appropriation for preparations for the expected [generated] outbreak.
That money is earmarked for stockpiling medications to combat the virus,
if it does occur, and also, reportedly for "immunity
from lawsuits if a vaccination causes harm," according
to an article in the Washington insider publication, The Hill.

Why
an exotic fruit is the world's only weapon against bird flu
15 Oct 2005 Star anise, the unusual fruit of a small oriental tree,
is sold in supermarkets in the UK to consumers seeking its pungent,
liquorice-like flavour. But the herb has a vital function as the source
of shikimic acid from which the drug Tamiflu is made, the only defence
the world currently has against the threatened flu pandemic.

Schools
to close and sport banned if bird flu hits 16 Oct 2005 The Government
believes that a pandemic could kill some 700,000 people in Britain,
and that it would be impossible to stop it once it reached the country.
The new plans are designed merely to mitigate its worst effects and
to try to stop a total breakdown of services and public order. [Can
you *envision* enduring a (US-generated)
bird flu pandemic, trapped in the Bush-Rumsfeld police state? The New
Orleans Superdome was FEMA's little experiment. Wait until the armed
terrorists from Blackwater USA start patrolling neighborhoods in tandem
with federal troops to enforce the quarantines and deportations to FEMA's
concentration camps... Lock & Load. --LRP.]

A
Flu Hope, Or Horror? By Charles Krauthammer 14 Oct 2005 "...[R]elatively
unnoticed was perhaps the most momentous event of our lifetime -- what
is left of it, as I shall explain. It was announced last week that U.S.
scientists have just created a living, killing copy of the 1918 'Spanish'
flu. [Ok, everybody at once now... WHY???]
...Why try to steal loose nukes in Russia? A nuke can only destroy a
city. The flu virus, properly evolved, is potentially a destroyer of
civilizations. We might have just given it to our enemies."

Dire
forecast for bird flu --Top U.S. health official: Nearly
impossible to stop global [engineered] outbreak 15 Oct 2005 After
wandering amid cages of birds and rabbits at an open-air market in Hanoi...
and after visiting a Haiphong family sickened by bird flu, the United
States’ top health official came to a grim conclusion: Preventing the
start of a global flu outbreak is just about impossible.

WHO
expert warns of bird flu pandemic 16 Oct 2005 The outbreak of
bird flu that has now reached Europe could mutate into a human pandemic
claiming millions of lives worldwide, a top influenza expert at the
World Health Organisation (WHO) said.

Tests
Confirm Deadly Bird Flu in Romania 15 Oct 2005 Tests have confirmed
a link between the bird flu found in Romania and the deadly virus that
has devastated flocks in Asia and turned up in Turkey, the European
Commission said Saturday.

Bird
Flu Virus Resistant to Tamiflu 14 Oct 2005 Bird flu virus found
in a Vietnamese girl was resistant to the main drug that's being stockpiled
in case of a pandemic, a sign that it's important to keep a second drug
on hand as well, a researcher said Friday.

Reconstructed
1918 killer flu similar to H5N1 strain 14 Oct 2005 The deadly
H5N1 avian influenza virus is hitting bird populations at Europe's easternmost
borders just as new research suggests that the virus could jump to humans
more easily than was first thought. A reconstruction
of the strain that caused the influenza pandemic of 1918, which killed
around 50 million people, shows that it shares several characteristics
with H5N1. [Right, that's because the Bush bioiterror
teams reconstructed it. *Duh.*]

Deadly
strain of Asian bird flu arrives on Europe's doorstep 14 Oct
2005 A lethal strain of bird flu that has killed 60 people in south-east
Asia has appeared on the doorstep of Europe. British scientists confirmed
yesterday that an outbreak of bird flu on a poultry farm in Turkey was
caused by the deadly H5N1 strain of influenza.

Turkey
tests 9 for bird flu as experts meet 14 Oct 2005 Turkish medical
staff on Friday tested nine people for possible bird flu a day after
European health officials confirmed what many had long feared -- the
arrival of the deadly H5N1 strain on Europe's doorstep.

UK
on alert for deadly virus 13 Oct 2005 Contingency plans have
been put in place in the UK if the deadly avian flu virus spreads to
the UK, the country's chief veterinary officer said.

Bird
flu warning: give jabs to those at risk 14 Oct 2005 European
Union governments were urged yesterday to stockpile anti-viral drugs
and offer the winter [useless] "flu shot" to as many vulnerable people
as possible, after the discovery of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Turkey
was confirmed.

Bird
flu reaches fringes of Europe 13 Oct 2005 The Federal Veterinary
Office on Thursday reiterated that the necessary precautions were in
place to prevent the spread of bird flu in Switzerland.

16th
H5N1 Fatality Transferred 20 Minutes Before Death (Recombinomics
Commentary) 12 Oct 2005 "...In the above case, holding the patient
three days at the primary facility led to his death 20 minutes after
transfer. The testing procedures in Indonesia are poorly conceived for
identification of H5N1 patients. The procedures are very effective at
generating false negatives."

US
mulls federal troops for bird flu quarantine12 Oct 2005 The
Pentagon is looking at the possibility of using federal troops to enforce
a quarantine in the event of an outbreak of pandemic bird flu in the
United States, a senior official said on Wednesday. Dictator
George W. Bush said last week he would consider using the military to
"effect a quarantine" in response to any outbreak of avian influenza,
but provided few details. [Others mull *insurrection.* We're not
going to FEMA's concentration camps, folks.]

Scientists
warn of possibility of drug-resistant avian flu 11 Oct 2005
US scientists warn that a drug-resistant Avian flu strain could arise
with unrestrained and improper use of available drugs. The warning came
as governments around the world are stockpiling [useless] antiviral
drugs and the H5N1 avian flu strain threatens to break out into a flu
pandemic.

U.S.
airlines on guard for bird flu 12 Oct 2005 The airline industry
is monitoring the burgeoning threat of bird flu but plans to wait before
instituting any special precautions to guard against the spread of the
disease.

Bird
flu could be used as a weapon 12 Oct 2005 Counter-terrorism
authorities have drawn up plans to defend Australia against terrorists
spreading avian influenza. The National Counter Terrorism Committee
has included the use of bird flu strain H5N1
as a weapon in possible terrorism attack scenarios, Attorney-General
Philip Ruddock's office confirmed. Australia joins the US and Canada
in treating bird flu as a possible "agri-terrorism" weapon against the
West. [The *US* was/is experimenting with the bird flu virus, digging
up corpses from the 1918 flu virus and manipulating the virus.]

Military
May Propose an Active-Duty Force for Relief Efforts 11 Oct 2005
The military's Northern Command is developing a proposal to organize
a specially trained and equipped active-duty force that could respond
quickly to assist 'relief' efforts in the event of overwhelming natural
[or, more than likely, Bush-created] disasters. The force under
consideration would keep hundreds of soldiers standing by on short notice
to assist National Guard soldiers.

Homeland
Security to take over during flu pandemic 11 Oct 2005 If an
avian flu pandemic emerges, it will fall to the Department of the Homeland
Security, not the medical establishment, to manage [foment] the crisis,
according to federal documents and interviews with government officials...
Extreme measures jumped into the spotlight last week when Dictator Bush
suggested that federal military troops — not just the National Guard
— may have to be called in to enforce a quarantine. DHS officials privately
acknowledge that any such forced quarantine could swiftly turn violent,
with people rioting to get away from a perceived diseased area. [You
can be sure of that. *NO ONE* is accepting incarceration in FEMA's concentration
camps. We all witnessed Dictator Bush's Superdome experiment, which
took place when the levees mysteriously gave way AFTER the brunt of
Hurricane Katrina had passed. --LRP.]

Bird
flu vaccines no guarantee in pandemic: WHO 11 Oct 2005 News
Vaccine stockpiles may prove useless against an outbreak of the human
form of bird flu, a UN official warned Tuesday. Current vaccines may
not work against whichever mutant strain triggers the pandemic that
UN officials view as inevitable, said David Nabarro, the United Nations
co-ordinator for avian and human influenza. [Right, but Bush's pharma-terrorists
will make a *killing,* regardless, by spreading the disease via the
deadly vaccines, loaded with mercury.]

Colombia
detects 1st suspected bird flu case 12 Oct 2005 Colombian authorities
said Monday they had detected the first suspected cases of bird flu
in the South American country, but insisted the strain was not harmful
to humans.

MSNBC
Poll: Do you have confidence in the government's response if there
were to be a bird flu outbreak? *10415 responses - Yes 13% - No 87%
[Poll snapshot: 02:10 EST 12 Oct 2005]

U.S
Health Secretary Warns of Flu Pandemic 10 Oct 2005 The likelihood
of a human flu pandemic is very high, U.S. Health and Human Services
Secretary Michael Leavitt warned Monday as he sought Southeast Asian
cooperation to combat the spread of bird flu. [As a key operative
of the Bush bioterror team, he would know. Bird flu 'will have arrived'
on US shores the day Rove is indicted in the Plame investigation.]

"Bird
Flu" Similar to Deadly 1918 Flu, Gene Study Finds 05 Oct 2005
Scientists have reconstructed the genetic code of the deadly 1918
"Spanish flu," which swept the globe and killed an estimated 20
to 40 million people. Among their findings: The 1918 virus strain developed
in birds and was similar to the "bird flu" that today has spurred fears
of another worldwide epidemic. By studying the once deadly 1918 virus's
genetic information, scientists may become better able to [start]
predict future pandemics, or widespread epidemics.

Resurrecting
the 1918 Flu Virus --The recreation of the deadly strain
of Spanish influenza is an astonishing scientific feat. 10 Oct 2005
It took a lot of digging to bring back to life the Spanish influenza
virus of 1918. Some was done with invisible molecular primers in a PCR
machine in Rockville. Some was done with pick and shovel in the frozen
ground of Alaska... Experiments with the reborn
virus [?!?] began in August at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
in Atlanta and have already answered some questions, which may
lead to better vaccines and drugs. [No, the *experiments* will
lead to Bush killing off a large percentage of the US population, invoking
a full-blown police state, and grabbing (further) totalitarian powers.]

Europe
on high alert over avian flu 10 Oct 2005 Europe was on high
alert yesterday over a possible bird flu epidemic after fears of an
outbreak of the disease in Romania and Turkey. Authorities in Germany
said that they were preparing emergency measures to stop the disease
from spreading, following its apparent arrival from Asia at the borders
of the EU.

Indonesia
says bird flu found in boy 09 Oct 2005 A 4-year-old boy has
tested positive for bird flu in Indonesia, a case which if confirmed
would be the sixth in the world's fourth-most populous country, the
health ministry said on Sunday.

Bush
Wants Legal Documents Drafted to Justify Quarantining Thousands
08 Oct 2005 A 381-page plan developed by the Bush regime to deal with
any possible outbreak of pandemic flu calls for quarantine and travel
restrictions... The plan's 10 supplements suggest specific ways that
local and state governments, and hospitals and healthcare workers should
prepare now for an eventual pandemic by, for instance, drafting legal
documents now that would justify quarantining thousands. The plan
details the responsibilities of top health officials in each phase of
a spreading pandemic, starting with planning and surveillance efforts
and ending with coordination with the Department
of Defense. [Note: Bush's media whores at the New York
Times have already changed the article. CLG summarized the earlier version.]

Bush
seizes on flu threat to press for martial law power By Bill
Van Auken 07 Oct 2005 "[George W.] Bush suggested that large numbers
of troops could be needed to 'effect a quarantine,' essentially sealing
off whole cities or regions of the country in the event of an [avian
flu] outbreak... Referring to the danger of a flu pandemic, Irwin Redlener,
director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia
University, warned that the US government 'is phenomenally not prepared
for this.' Describing Bush’s proposal as 'extraordinarily draconian,'
Dr. Redlener added, 'The translation of this
is martial law in the United States.'"

First
deadly bird flu cases suspected in Europe --H591 virus may
have caused deaths of ducks in Romania, officials say 07 Oct 2005
Three domestic ducks have died of bird flu in eastern Romania, but authorities
said Friday they had not confirmed whether the birds were infected by
the H5N1 strain that experts are tracking for fear it could mutate and
spawn a human flu pandemic.

Bird
flu drugs are taking on second lives [Not to mention, a taxpayer-funded
corporate-welfare boondoggle that will go unquestioned.] 07 Oct
2005 Growing fears of a global bird flu pandemic are revitalizing drugs
like peramivir, a flu treatment that BioCryst Pharmaceuticals gave up
on three years ago... A Japanese company, Sankyo, has developed an advanced
version of Relenza that did not go beyond early clinical trials but
that now, with money from Washington, was being studied as a
possible avian flu treatment.

FedEx
Plane Carrying Flu Virus Crashes In Winnipeg --Cessna
208 was carrying frozen influenza and herpes viruses 07 Oct
2005 A cargo plane crashed on railway tracks not far from Winnipeg's
city centre Thursday, killing the pilot but missing buildings and vehicles
in the area, police said... In its cargo were six half-millilitre vials
of virus samples - frozen influenza and herpes viruses - being sent
to Thunder Bay for research, FedEx spokeswoman Karen Cooper said from
Toronto. Although the samples were labelled dangerous goods, they were
not considered hazardous at the crash site since all the cargo was destroyed
in the blaze, she said [we hope]. [Federal Express. When your herpes
virus absolutely, positively, has to get there overnight. --LRP]

Security
fears as flu virus that killed 50 million is recreated 06 Oct
2005 Scientists have recreated the 1918 Spanish
flu virus, one of the deadliest ever to emerge, to the alarm of many
researchers who fear it presents a serious security risk.
Undisclosed quantities of the virus are being held in a high-security
government laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia, after a nine-year effort
to rebuild the agent that swept the globe in record time and claimed
the lives of an estimated 50 million people. [Will Bush announce
that bird flu has 'arrived on US soil' (actually, it's already sitting
in a US bio-weapons lab) on the day the Plame investigation concludes?
I predicted
this on 5 July. --LRP]

Scientists
resurrected 1918 flu, brought virus back to life 05 Oct 2005
Scientists who resurrected the 1918 "Spanish
flu" virus that killed as many as 50 million people said
on Wednesday they are beginning to understand why it caused such a deadly
pandemic and say it could happen again... "We felt we had to recreate
the virus and run these experiments to understand the biological properties
that made the 1918 virus so exceptionally deadly,"said Terrence
Tumpey of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta...
The experiment, in which the virus was recreated employing a process
called reverse genetics using preserved samples of the 1918 virus, allowed
the researchers to test it in the laboratory and in several animals.
It will help answer important questions, said Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger
of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Rockville, Maryland. Taubenberger's
team used pieces of virus taken from preserved samples from 1918 victims,
as well as from the corpse of a victim dug up from a frozen grave in
Alaska in 1998. They used these pieces to make
a replica of the 1918 virus, and brought it back to "life" -- viruses
are not truly alive like other microbes -- by combining it with modern
influenza virus pieces and growing it in bacteria. [OMFG,
how blatant can they get?]

From
frozen Alaska to the lab: a virus 39,000 times more virulent than flu
--Tight security to prevent 'select agent' escaping --Publication
of its genetic code raises fears of misuse[*Duh.*]
06 Oct 2005 Only a handful of scientists have security clearance to
access the laboratory at 1600 Clifton Road in Atlanta, Georgia, home
to the US government's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Before
entering, they must pull on a protective hood, don breathing apparatus
and pass through electronic fingerprint and retina scanners to prove
their identity. Inside the lab lies a batch of a virus, designated a
"select agent", that more than justifies the extreme level of security.
Resurrected nearly 90 years after it spread
around the globe, leaving an estimated 50 million people dead, it is
a replica of the 1918 Spanish flu virus.

1918
pandemic caused by bird flu, experts say--Reconstruction
of the lethal virus shows it jumped directly to humans 06
Oct 2005 The 1918 influenza virus, the cause of one of history's most
deadly epidemics, has been reconstructed and found to be a bird flu
that jumped directly to humans, two teams of federal and university
scientists announced yesterday.

Bush
Wants Army to Combat Bird Flu06 Oct 2005 The US military might
have to quarantine areas of the United States if there was a serious
outbreak of the deadly avian flu, George Bush has said. The pResident
said he would ask Congress to consider giving him powers to use the
army if bird flu struck.

Bush
wants right to use military if bird flu hits 04 Oct 2005 Dictator
George W. Bush asked Congress on Tuesday to consider giving him powers
to use the military to enforce quarantines in case of an avian influenza
epidemic. [This is why CLG has been busy as a bee, working on this
page: http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html.
Pay particular attention to the article which reveals that researchers
went to the UK in 2004 to exhume a body from the 1918 flu pandemic.
And, no one asked 'Why.']

Bush
proposes using military to enforce quarantines where avian flu breaks
out 04 Oct 2005 Dictator George W. Bush said Tuesday that any
part of the country where the avian flu breaks out could likely be quarantined,
and he's considering using the military to enforce it. [Right. New
Orleans and the FEMA camps were the 'dry run.' They are going full-court
press soon, the day the Plame investigation concludes.]

N.H.
officials training for possible flu pandemic 04 Oct 2005 In
New Hampshire, public health officials begin training sessions Wednesday
on the roles and responsibilities of police, the courts, prisons and
public health in handling an outbreak, and any quarantine that might
be imposed. Public Health spokesman Greg Moore said so many jurisdictions
would be involved because public health would
have to issue a quarantine order, which could be appealed to the courts.
Those who don't comply could be jailed. [Oh, the courts.
Yeah, the 'courts' are sure going to help. LOL! Bush just installed
Damien Thorn as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and a silent sicko
is warming up in the bullpen. Do you really think Bush's *personal lawyer*
- with twenty years of loyal service to (and obsession with) Bush -
is going to rule against *any* of his edicts? Gag me with a chainsaw!
Everybody needs to start worshipping Amendment #2. And I mean *everybody*
and I mean *now* - while we still can. --Lori Price]

Tularemia
agent found in DC air 03 Oct 2005 In a Sep 30 message to health
agencies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said
environmental air monitors in the Capitol Mall [Sep 24, 25] "signaled
the low level presence of Francisella tularensis," the bacterium that
causes tularemia. The microbe is one of the six agents considered
most likely to be used by [Bush's] terrorists
as a biological weapon.

Did
Bush administration attack peace movement with military grade biological
bacteria? By Bob Fitrakis 04 Oct 2005 "What do we make
of the Saturday, October 1 Washington Post headline 'Poison Found in
Air During Anti-War Protest'? ...Coincidence theorists. You gotta love
‘em and their great faith in believing in the statistically improbable
occurrence of events, rather than an alternative hypothesis: that friends
of Bush (FOBs) planted the tularemia bacteria, just as most likely sent
anthrax to Democratic senators and the media."

CDC
locks up flu data 03 Oct 2005 Amid growing concerns that avian
influenza will develop into a deadly pandemic, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention is under fire by some in the scientific community
for hoarding data crucial for vaccine development. The allegations come
as CDC has issued new and controversial rules
on what data, documents and other information it will — and will not
— share with the public. Open government advocates are critical
of the CDC's "Information Security" manual, the 34-page document that
gives officials 19 categories to shield data from public scrutiny without
obtaining a "secret" classification.

Concern
grows over secrecy at CDC 03 Oct 2005 Scientists are accusing
the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of hoarding
crucial data that could help vaccinations at a time when there is growing
concern about a possible influenza pandemic. The nation's disease control
center is also under fire from open-government advocates for recently
issuing a guide on how to keep data, documents and information from
public inspection.

Bird
flu jumps transmission barrier in humans 01 Oct 2005 Bird flu
has broken the transmission barrier and jumped from human to human,
according to the World Health Organisation. Most cases have been bird
to human but transmission between people increases fears of a global
pandemic.

Rare
Germ Found in D.C. on Sept. 24, 25 (DC Protest Days)Tularemia
Is Highly Infectious; Can Cause Pneumonia and Systemic Infection
30 Sep 2005 A relatively rare biological agent has been detected in
air filters serving Washington D.C. in recent weeks, ABC News has learned
-- but current evidence does not show any indication whatsoever of terrorism
[?!?]. The federal government found six air filters around the nation's
capital checked on Sept. 24 and 25 contained "trace amounts" of tularemia,
a type of bacteria. No additional traces have
been detected since Sept. 24 and 25. [Gee, how blatant
can they get? We need to start fighting back. Tolerating their terrorism
is becoming the greater crime. --Lori Price.]

Biohazard
Sensors Triggered 01 Oct 2005 Biohazard sensors showed the presence
of small amounts of potentially dangerous tularemia bacteria in the
Mall area last weekend as huge crowds assembled there, but health officials
said they believed the levels were too low to be a threat. Health authorities
in the Washington area were notified yesterday that the bacteria were
found in and near the area between the U.S. Capitol and the Lincoln
Memorial, where crowds gathered Saturday for an antiwar rally and a
book festival.

Pandemic
'could kill 150m people' 30 Sep 2005 A leading United Nations
official has warned there could be a new influenza outbreak at any time
which could kill up to 150 million people.

50
Indonesia bird flu cases suspected 29 Sep 2005 Indonesia faces
more than 50 suspected cases of deadly bird flu, Indonesian health ministry
officials said on Thursday, while lowering their figure on deaths from
the disease to five from an earlier estimate of six.

Senate
approves $4 bln to fight bird flu 29 Sep 2005 The Senate passed
legislation on Thursday to add $4 billion to the U.S. fight 'against'
deadly avian flu by stocking up on anti-viral drugs and increasing global
surveillance of the disease.

50
Indonesia bird flu cases suspected 29 Sep 2005 Indonesia faces
more than 50 suspected cases of deadly bird flu, Indonesian health ministry
officials said on Thursday, while lowering their figure on deaths from
the disease to five from an earlier estimate of six.

Avian
Influenza A (H5N1) Infection in Humans --The Writing Committee
of the World Health Organization (WHO) Consultation on Human Influenza
A/H5 (The New England Journal of Medicine) 29 Sep 2005 "An unprecedented
epizootic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus that is highly pathogenic has
crossed the species barrier in Asia to cause many human fatalities and
poses an increasing pandemic threat."

Unease
over bird flu pecking order 29 Sep 2005 (AU) The Federal Government
should roll back the "culture of secrecy" surrounding how life-saving
drugs will be rationed in the event of a bird flu pandemic, Labor says.

Bird
flu: 54 Indonesians ill 28 Sep 2005 At least 54 people were
being treated on Wednesday for suspected bird flu in Indonesia, where
the disease had already claimed six lives, said officials.

Growing
bird flu fear sparks alert 24 Sep 2005 The Torres Strait and
Cape York have been put on high alert for deadly bird flu ahead of widespread
testing of migratory birds in the region.

Tourists
warned about bird flu deaths 24 Sep 2005 Health officials in
Indonesia have warned that the country could face a bird flu epidemic
after the deaths this week of two girls suspected of contracting the
disease.

Indonesia
says 16 under observation for bird flu 23 Sep 2005 The number
of Indonesians under observation for bird flu symptoms has risen to
16, the Health Ministry said on Friday, but added that tests confirmed
a five-year-old girl who died this week did not have the virus.

Indonesia
Braces for Bird Flu Epidemic --Health Minister Issues Warning
as Two More Suspected Cases End in Death 22 Sep 2005 Indonesia's
health minister warned Wednesday that the country could face a bird
flu epidemic if the number of suspected cases of the virus continued
to mount.

Deaths
spark epidemic fears 22 Sep 2005 The suspected bird flu deaths
of two young girls in Jakarta has set off a flurry of political activity.
Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari called the re-emergence of bird
flu "a sporadic epidemic", adding to concerns that the virus could mutate
into a deadly human-to-human form.

World
has slim chance to stop flu pandemic 20 Sep 2005 The initial
outbreak of what could explode into a bird flu pandemic may affect only
a few people, but the world will have just weeks to contain the deadly
virus before it spreads and kills millions.

Bird
flu epidemic could kill millions worldwide: experts 18 Sep 2005
Millions of people could die around the world if bird flu spreads out
of control, and most countries are totally unprepared for such an event,
the UN's World Health Organisation says. [No worries - FEMA will
take care of us. *NOT.*]

Avian
Flu: Is the Government Ready for an Epidemic? 16 Sep 2005 Already,
officials in London are quietly looking for extra morgue space to house
the victims of the H5N1 virus, a never-before-seen
strain of flu. Scientists say this virus could pose a far
greater threat than smallpox, AIDS or anthrax.

Oops!Mice
infected with deadly plague are missing in N.J. 15 Sep 2005
Authorities are searching for three mice infected with bubonic plague
that disappeared from a research laboratory about two weeks ago. The
mice went missing from the lab of the Public Health Research Institute,
which is located on the UMDNJ campus and conducts
bioterrorism research for the federal government. [Oh,
I'm sure they'll emerge in a Blue state pretty soon.]

U.S.
Buys $100 Million of Bird Flu Vaccine 15 Sep 2005 Mass production
of a new vaccine that promises to protect against bird flu is poised
to begin, as the government on Thursday agreed to stockpile $100
million worth of inoculations. The new contract with French
vaccine maker Sanofi-Pasteur marks a major scale-up in U.S. preparation
for the possibility that the virus could spark an influenza pandemic.

Warnings
on bird flu pandemic 14 Sep 2005 A bird flu pandemic in Australia
could be more deadly for the nation than almost any sort of terrorist
attack, Health Minister Tony Abbott has warned.

Europe
races to shore up bird flu defences 12 Sep 2005 Europe is racing
to bolster its defences against bird flu, fearing it could be winging
its way to the continent with migrating wildfowl via countries too poor
to check its spread.

Police
focus on bird flu and disasters 12 Sep 2005 Being prepared to
manage a crisis such as bird flu or natural disasters are areas police
must see they have proper skills for, says (Fiji) Police Commissioner
Andrew Hughes. The conference will see the adoption of a Pacific framework
for natural disasters where police form a regional network where
help can be procured when any big natural [or
Bush-engendered] disaster strikes anywhere in the region.

Indonesian
authorities suspect bird flu outbreak 12 Sep 2005 Health officials
in Jakarta suspect there has been another deadly outbreak of bird flu
in the Indonesian capital. Preliminary tests show a woman who died in
hospital overnight was infected by the H5N1 virus which killed three
others in the city two months ago.

"Very
strange bird flu" or is bird flu - American bio-weapon? By Vladimir
Ivanov 22 Aug 2005 "In view of all this the fact of unexpected
even for US allies refusal in 2001 by the administration of George Bush
to sign the draft of new multilateral agreement on toughening the prohibition
of bacteriological weapons, already signed by 140 countries, must not
be ignored. And in 2002 the group of prominent scientists-microbiologists
of the USA and England publicly accused authorities of the USA of development
of the new generation bacteriological weapons, in particular special
cluster bombs which represents a gross violation of international agreements."

Bird
flu pandemic inevitable, says WHO 08 Sep 2005 The World Health
Organisation (WHO) yesterday warned that a pandemic of the bird flu
strain lethal to humans is inevitable, and would likely kill between
one and seven million people worldwide, Reuters reports. [We really
need to eliminate the Bush regime before bird flu 'mysteriously' arrives,
as a Weapon of Mass Distraction for Bush's Katrina and Iraq. Outside
of forced quarantines and utilizing FEMA's concentration camps on a
grand scale, I really can't foresee any other actions that Bush and
Halliburton will take during the pandemic. --Lori Price]

Bird
flu pandemic a question of when, not if -WHO 07 Sep 2005 The
world is going to face a pandemic of the bird flu strain lethal to humans
and Thailand is the only nation in South and Southeast Asia ready to
deal with it, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday.

Europe
races to shore up bird flu defences 06 Sep 2005 Europe is racing
to bolster its defences against bird flu, fearing it could be winging
its way to the continent with migrating wildfowl via countries too poor
to check its spread.

Bird
flu confirmed in 45 Russian villages -- report 05 Sep 2005 The
bird flu virus has been confirmed in 45 Russian villages, and 80 villages
are still being tested for the virus as of September 5, Russia's Federal
Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Inspection reported Monday.

Bird
flu risks spreading to Europe 05 Sep 2005 The bird flu virus
that had leapt to Russia and Kazakhstan after causing deaths and huge
economic losses in Asia risked spreading further, borne by migratory
birds criss-crossing the globe, experts said today. Wild birds are widely
credited with spreading avian influenza far beyond its epicentre in
the backyard farms of Asia, where the mingling of species gives virologists
nightmares about the risk of mutation into a far deadlier form.

Nations
on alert as bird flu likely to spread around globe 01 Sep 2005
The bird flu virus that has hit several Asian countries is likely to
spread to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, the U.N. food agency
warned on Wednesday, urging nations at risk to step up surveillance
and prepare emergency plans.

U.N.
warns deadly bird flu is likely to migrate west 01 Sep 2005
The bird flu virus that has hit several Asian countries is likely to
spread to Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the U.N. Food and Agriculture
Organization warned Wednesday, urging nations at risk to step up surveillance
and prepare national emergency plans.

*****

France
reinforces defences against bird flu 30 Aug 2005 France said
on Tuesday it would toughen defences against the potential arrival of
bird flu in the country, reinforcing checks at airports and building
stockpiles of vaccines in the event of a human pandemic.

Ministers
leave '2m lives at risk from bird flu' --University professor
accuses government of creating 'new BSE' in bird flu --Professor dismisses
government claims that bird flu threat to UK is remote -- 29 Aug 2005
Government complacency over the risk of the Asian bird flu epidemic
reaching Britain is endangering the lives of up to two million people,
according to Professor Hugh Pennington. The emeritus professor of microbiology
at Aberdeen University, who is Britain's leading expert on the H5N1
sub-virus, yesterday accused health officials
of creating "the new BSE".

Suspected
bird flu hits Finnish gulls 28 Aug 2005 Finland reported Friday
its first case of bird flu, found in gulls in the northwest of the country,
but said the strain did not carry any risks for humans.

Britain's
elite get pills to survive bird flu 28 Aug 2005 Members
of Britain’s elite have been selected as priority cases to receive scarce
pills and vaccinations at the taxpayers’ expense if the country
is hit by a deadly bird flu outbreak. Workers at the BBC and prominent
politicians — such as cabinet ministers — would be offered protection
from the virus.

Deadly
flu: 'The only question is when' --Avian's arrival called
inevitable Experts fear global pandemic --Not if, but when for outbreak
of disease: Experts Avian flu virus is possible candidate for global
infection 27 Aug 2005 The deadly avian flu virus is slowly but surely
making its way around the world.

Possible
Case of Bird Flu First in Finland 26 Aug 2005 Finnish authorities
said Friday they had found a suspected case of bird flu in the north
of the country. An Agriculture Ministry official said it was unlikely
to be a case of the H5N1 strain, which scientists fear might spark a
human pandemic.

Bird
Flu: Intensified Checks At Fiumicino 27 Aug 2005 The morning
after the urgent order signed by Health Minister, Francesco Storace,
checks on passengers and baggage have been intensified at Fiumicino
for passengers coming from (China, Russia, and now also Finland), for
bird flu, HSN1.

Bird
Flu Spreads to New Species 26 Aug 2005 Bird flu has killed three
rare civets born in captivity at a national park in Vietnam, marking
the first time the virus has been reported in the species, officials
said Friday.

Bird
Flu Discovered in Vietnamese Civet Cats 27 Aug 2005 Bird flu
has killed three rare civet cats at a national park in Vietnam, officials
said Friday, the first time the virus has been reported in the species.
The Owston civets died in late June at Cuc Phuong National Park, about
75 miles south of Hanoi.

Spread
of bird flu virus is a 'national emergency' 25 Aug 2005 Veterinary
experts from across Europe are meeting today to develop a strategy to
stop the spread of a deadly strain of avian flu, which one British scientist
has declared a national emergency.

Avian
flu "undoubtedly" will hit UK 25 Aug 2005 Avian flu will "undoubtedly"
be carried to Britain by migrating birds, the president of the British
Veterinary Association warned today.

Britain
on alert as bird flu heads towards Europe 25 Aug 2005 Britain
is to begin testing wild birds for avian flu as EU officials meet today
to discuss the growing health threat from a deadly strain of the virus.
Scientists fear that a lethal form of bird flu that can infect humans
may be brought into the country this autumn by migrating waterfowl.

Bird
Flu Again Detected in Japan Poultry --Bird Flu Again Detected
in Japanese Poultry, Agriculture Ministry Says 22 Aug 2005 Authorities
have detected another outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm near Tokyo,
the Agriculture Ministry said Monday.

Flu
measures urged for UK 22 Aug 2005 The government is under pressure
to bring in emergency measures to protect poultry in this country from
bird flu.

Lock
Up Your Chickens[LOL!!] 23 Aug 2005 Warning as bird
flu spreads west --Britain's chickens should be kept indoors to
stop them catching bird flu, it was claimed yesterday. The warning came
as Holland told farmers to move their flocks inside - with Germany set
to follow next month. A strain of the H5N1 virus - which infects poultry
and has been linked to the deaths of 57 people - has spread into Russia
and could soon reach Europe.

Airport
guards against bird flu 20 Aug 2005 The Rome-Fiumicino international
airport has begun implementing precautionary measures involving passengers
and merchandise originating from regions affected by bird flu, the airport
said on Saturday. Passengers travelling to the Rome airport from China
or Russia may be immediately hospitalised in
an infectious diseases clinic if they shows signs of respiratory
problems, airport authorities said in a statement.

Flight
H5N1 is approaching Britain. Brace for impact 21 Aug 2005 Some
scientists are already drawing parallels with the so-called Spanish
Flu outbreak of 1918, in which another bird flu virus - code-named H1N1
- hit the right genetic combination needed to trigger human-to-human
transmission. The resulting pandemic led to at least 20 million deaths,
double the number of people killed in the First World War. "The population
is higher now, so we could be talking about 100 million deaths or more,"
says Prof Neil Ferguson, an expert on virus epidemics at Imperial College,
London. "The 1918 scenario is within what people
should be planning for."

Bird
Flu Suspected at Big Russian Farm --Presence of Deadly Virus,
if Verified, Would Be the Nation's Biggest Outbreak 21 Aug 2005
Russian officials have quarantined a large poultry farm in Siberia because
of a suspected outbreak of bird flu, news reports said Saturday. If
confirmed, it would be the first major occurrence of the lethal virus
among birds in Russia, and international health officials expressed
concern that the disease had spread closer to Western Europe.

Bird
flu virus: A crisis waiting to explodeIt
is spreading fast and nations are stockpiling antidotes 20
Aug 2005 Health experts claim bird flu is a ticking time bomb waiting
to explode. Initially, it was seen as a few isolated cases in South-East
Asia, may now be the beginnings of a global pandemic.

'Bird
flu may cause global economic mayhem'[We've got Bush already
doing that] 19 Aug 2005 Canadian financial analysts predicted that
an avian flu pandemic would have dire consequences on the global economy,
its impact comparable to the Great Depression
of the 1930s.

Russia:
Bird flu deadly to humans 16 Aug 2005 Russia says an outbreak
of bird flu in Chelyabinsk is dangerous to humans, as teams of sanitary
workers destroy birds in Siberia in an attempt to prevent the westward
spread of the deadly virus.

Russia
says bird flu may spread to Europe 15 Aug 2005 Russia, which
is scrambling to contain a bird flu outbreak in Siberia, warned the
world on Monday that migrating birds may export the deadly virus to
Europe and the Middle East in coming months.

Bird-flu
pandemic just 'plane ride away' --Officials watch state for
signs of outbreak 14 Aug 2005 Though avian flu has been confined
to Asia so far, public health officials in Washington state are taking
the threat seriously. They’re preparing for the worst even as the Bush
regime has proposed cuts in federal funding for agencies already cash-strapped
because of 'bioterrorism responsibilities' in the wake of Sept. 11.

WHO
Warns Global Bird Flu Pandemic 11 Aug 2005 A World Health Organisation
official warned of a possible global bird flu pandemic on Thursday,
and urged governments and health workers around the world to prepare
for a possible worst-case scenario.

Deadly
bird flu strain spreads in Kazakhstan 11 Aug 2005 A deadly strain
of avian influenza that can infect humans has spread to three more Kazakh
villages, a senior official at the Central Asian state's Agriculture
Ministry told Reuters on Thursday.

Bird
flu virus found in Kazakhstan could kill humans 11 Aug 2005
The recent bird flu outbreak found close to Kazakhstan's northern border
with Russia was caused by the deadly H5N1 strain that can be transmitted
to humans, a statement by Kazakhstan's Agricultural Ministry read on
Thursday.

Britain
prepares for bird flu death toll of thousands 07 Aug 2005 The
government is to mount an exercise to help emergency services prepare
for any potential bird flu pandemic that could kill thousands of people
in Britain. Estimates of deaths in the first six weeks of the outbreak
range from 20,000 up to 710,000, after which the disease would begin
to subside... Officials are looking for sites for mass mortuaries.

A
Successful Vaccine Alone Is Not Enough to Prevent Avian Flu Epidemic
07 Aug 2005 Health officials, who over the weekend announced success
in an initial test of a human vaccine against avian influenza, cautioned
Sunday that the existence of a vaccine in itself would not be enough
to avert a worldwide pandemic. [Dictator Bush will *still* give billions
to the pharma-terrorists.]

U.S.
to order millions of bird flu vaccine doses --Government
says mass distribution of drug could start by mid-September 08 Aug
2005 The government is optimistic about a new vaccine to protect against
[sic - *foment*] an outbreak of
potentially deadly avian flu, and distribution could start as soon as
mid-September, a senior federal health official says.

Europeans
warned as bird flu heads west 06 Aug 2005 Russian authorities,
struggling to contain an outbreak of avian flu that has killed thousands
of birds in Siberia, have admitted that a spread of the virus into Europe
seems inevitable.

Russia
finds more bird flu cases 06 Aug 2005 Russian authorities say
they have found evidence of the bird flu virus in two more regions of
the country. The disease has been confirmed in wildfowl in the regions
of Kurgan and Omsk.

Bird
Flu Spreads to Another Russian Region 02 Aug 2005 Russian veterinary
officials said Tuesday that an outbreak of an avian flu strain that
can infect humans has spread to another region in Siberia, while authorities
were struggling to contain the virus.

Man
hospitalized with bird flu symptoms in Kazakhstan 31 Jul 2005
A 20-year-old man showing bird flu symptoms has been hospitalized in
Kazakhstan's Pavlodar region, where 600 domestic geese died between
July 20 and July 30 as a result of an outbreak of the disease in the
area.

Bird
flu moves towards Europe --Migratory birds may have caused
outbreaks in Russia and Kazakhstan. 01 Aug 2005 The H5NI avian influenza
virus has broken out in poultry flocks in Russia and in Kazakhstan,
where a suspected human case is also being investigated.

*****

WHO baffled as pig-disease toll rises --The
World Health Organization suggested that the rarely seen bacterium may
have mutated if it was indeed responsible for the death toll
in China, now up to 31 29 Jul 2005 A mysterious pig-borne disease has
spread to six more towns in southwest China and the number of people
killed has risen to 31, the Chinese government said yesterday as it
scrambled to reassure the public.

Russia: Outbreak of Bird Flu Confirmed In Siberia
27 Jul 2005 Russia’s chief epidemiologist, Gennadii Onishchenko,
confirmed at a Moscow news conference on 25 July what had been suspected
for several days: the first cases of bird flu ever recorded have now
hit Russia... Authorities say the virus was probably brought to Russia
by migratory birds from Asia.

After bird flu, pig bug human toll rises to 24 27
Jul 2005 The death toll from infection with a bacteria commonly found
in pigs has reportedly risen to at least 24, with 21 people in critical
condition and nearly 40 new cases in south western China's Sichuan province.

Killer flu linked to bird feces 26 Jul 2005
Three family members who died of bird flu earlier this month were infected
by chicken droppings that contained the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus,
Indonesia's agriculture ministry has said.

Mystery
Chinese disease toll now 17 25 Jul 2005 death toll from an unidentified
disease has risen to 17 with 41 other people affected in southwest China's
Sichuan province, state media said overnight.

Bird
Flu Deaths Sow Panic In Wealthy Jakarta Suburb --Officials
Have Not Found Source of Outbreak 25 Jul 2005 When Iwan Siswara
Rafei, a government auditor, and his two young daughters died suddenly
this month, there was panic in their middle-class suburb along with
reports that they were Indonesia's first casualties of bird flu.

Unknown Illness Kills Nine Chinese Farmers --Deaths
Could Be Linked to Outbreaks of Bird Flu in Nine Asian Countries
24 Jul 2005 An unidentified disease has killed nine farmers and sickened
11 others in a rural part of China's western Sichuan province, prompting
the government to dispatch an emergency team of researchers to investigate
whether the deaths are related to bird flu, a Health Ministry spokesman
said Saturday.

Signs point to global influenza outbreak--WHO warning
22 Jul 2005 Indonesia's first human bird flu case, coupled with more
birds dying elsewhere including Russia, are signs a long-dreaded global
influenza pandemic may be approaching, the World Health Organisation
(WHO) said on Friday.

Indonesia
on alert after bird flu deaths 22 Jul 2005 Indonesia is preparing
44 hospitals across the archipelago for treatment and detection of bird
flu after the country recorded its first deaths from the virus.

Evolving
Catastrophic H5N1 Bird Flu Pandemic in 2005 (Recombinomics Commentary)
17 Jul 2005 "The latest boxun report describes 10 strains of H5N1
circulating in China. Eight of the ten have some evidence
for human
infections, but there is no direct independent confirmation of the
data. The data suggest that the 2005 pandemic is well underway and a
wide range of catastrophic events will continue to make news. The report
also suggests H5N1 in China is diverse and evolving, expanding a
trend that will likely culminate in an event that may make the 1918
flu pandemic look tame."

Bird
flu a national security issue, Rudd says 16 Jul Opposition foreign
affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd (AU) says avian influenza represents a
national security challenge. He says he agrees with world health experts
who say the bird flu will cause a pandemic if it mutates, allowing human
to human transmission.

Fresh
fears over spread of bird flu 16 Jul 2005 A man and his two
daughters have died of suspected bird flu in Indonesia, and initial
investigations showed they had no contact with poultry, raising concerns
of possible human-to-human transmission.

'No
defence against bird flu' 14 Jul 2005 Assurances from South
Africa's Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang that South Africa
has well advanced plans to contain a bird flu outbreak are not backed
up by the facts, says official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) spokesperson
Diane Kohler-Barnard.

Vietnam
bird flu toll hits 40, more infected 14 Jul 2005 Bird flu has
killed another Vietnamese and infected three more, taking the country's
toll to 40 -- half of them killed since the H5N1 virus returned in December,
the media reported on Thursday.

Defense
Logistics Agency Spends $58m on Tamiflu 12 Jul 2005 --Roche
Laboratories Inc., Nutley, N.J., is being awarded a maximum $58,000,000
firm fixed price contract for Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps
for Oseltamivir Phosphate Capsules [Tamiflu, which is used to treat
Avian flu]. This is a requirements contract with a base year
and one option period. Performance completion date is Feb. 28, 2006.

Japan
finds fresh case of bird flu 11 Jul 2005 A fresh case of bird
flu has been confirmed on a chicken farm neighbouring earlier outbreaks
discovered in eastern Japan late last month, a local government official
said on Monday.

Bird
flu could spread to Europe, say scientists 09 Jul 2005 A virulent
outbreak of avian flu among migrating geese at a wildlife refuge in
China has raised fears that the disease could spread to India and Europe,
according to studies published this week by the journals Science and
Nature.

Flu
virus confirmed in migratory birds 07 Jul 2005 China has confirmed
the deadly avian flu virus was found for the first time in migratory
birds, raising fears the disease could spread to other regions.

Bird
flu 'global threat' 08 Jul 2005 Asia's bird flu may be poised
to spread through migrating birds to India, Australia, New Zealand and
eventually on to Europe, scientists warned yesterday.

Bird
flu: World is on the edge 05 Jul 2005 Asia's bird flu outbreak
is at a critical stage where it could easily become a human pandemic,
health experts warned yesterday, urging mass poultry vaccinations to
prevent a crisis.

Experts
to plan bird flu strategy 04 Jul 2005 Health, food and animal
experts plan to hammer out a strategy this week to ensure that the bird
flu virus does not spread from humans to humans -- a possibility that
has raised fears of an influenza.

U.S.
bird flu effort lags, Congress told 01 Jul 2005 Although avian
flu may be only "a few mutations away" from becoming a pandemic that
could kill 500,000 Americans, the United States lags behind other countries
in planning for the disease, health officials told Congress on Thursday.

Japan
detects new bird flu outbreak 01 Jul 2005 Another outbreak of
bird flu, H5N2 strain, has been found near a farm proven infected earlier
this week, the Ibaraki prefecture authorities announced on July 1.

Bird
Flu Outbreak in Japan 27 Jun 2005 Bird flu has been detected
in chickens at a farm in north-eastern Japan, and restrictions have
been imposed on shipments of poultry and eggs from the area, the government
said yesterday.

Bird
flu virus detected in Japan 27 Jun 2005 The H5N2-type avian
influenza virus has been detected in chickens at a poultry farm in Mitsukaido,
east Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture.

Bird
flu 'as grave a threat as terrorism' 26 Jun 2005 Bird flu is
now as much of a danger to Britain as terrorism, ministers have been
told by the Government's official emergency body. Plans
are being made to close schools and cancel sporting fixtures in an attempt
to limit the spread of the virus, and official advice on
how to try to avoid being infected will be ready for publication this
summer. [Looks like the deaths of the forty-plus microbiologists (since 9/11) are about to pay off
big-time for the Bush junta: the quarantines and the tag-along full-blown
police state, all managed by Vice
President Bill Frist. Bush's approval rating for the Iraq war just
hit
28% in California... even Rove and Diebold can't pull this one out
of the sewer. When the ('expected') avian flu pandemic hits, do you
think we will all be sitting around, discussing the Downing Street Memo?
Bush now needs his bioterror chickens to come home to roost. Remember,
you read it here first. --Lori Price]

Chance
of bird flu between humans increases-Vietnam 25 Jun 2005 Vietnam's
agriculture ministry was quoted as saying on Saturday that the mutation
of a bird flu virus was increasing the infection possibility between
humans. State-run media cited a ministry report as saying laboratory
test results overseas and at home showed the antigen structure of
the virus is changing.

Flu
pandemic could kill half million in U.S.-report 24 Jun 2005
Half a million Americans could die and more than 2 million could end
up in the hospital with serious complications if an even moderately
severe strain of a pandemic flu hits, a report predicted on Friday.

Indonesia
says has 50 polio cases, one bird flu 20 Jun 2005 Indonesia
has found 50 polio cases since the disease re-emerged in the country
last month [right along with the presence of the US], and one human
carrier of the bird flu virus after an outbreak hit the nation's fowl
in March, the health minister said on Monday.

Oops!
It's dead scientist #78... Russian
Investigators Probe Biological Weapons Link to Hepatitis Outbreak
09 Jun 2005 An investigation is checking whether the mass outbreak of
hepatitis A in the Tver region near Moscow could be linked to the biological
weapons sector. At the moment 363 people are in hospital, NewsRu.Com
reported Thursday. Some newspapers have linked the outbreak to the recent
murder of Russia’s leading specialist in bio weapons. Some sources link
Wednesday's murder of Anti-Microbe Therapy Institute director Leonid
Strachunsky,who specialized in creating microbes
resistant to biological weapons, to the hepatitis outbreak,
NewsRu.Com added. [See: Steve Quayle's List
of Dead Scientists.]

Bird
Flu Drug Rendered Useless 18 Jun 2005 Chinese farmers, acting
with the approval and encouragement of government officials, have tried
to suppress major bird flu outbreaks among chickens with an antiviral
drug meant for humans, animal health experts said. International researchers
now conclude that this is why the drug will no longer protect people
in case of a worldwide bird flu epidemic.

Where
they'll bury us if bird flu hits Bay 18 Jun 2005 Burial grounds
have been earmarked in Hawke's Bay (NZ) for a deadly flu epidemic that
could kill thousands of the region's people. The nightmare scenario
is part of health authorities' planning for an event they say is "a
matter of when - not if". The first suspected case of human-to-human
transmission of bird flu was reported in Vietnam two weeks ago.

How
pigs could be launchpad for bird flu pandemic 18 Jun 2005 A
virologist from Hong Kong has warned that pigs could provide a launchpad
for bird flu, even if birds carrying the virus, which is causing havoc
in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, failed to do so.

Indonesia Reports Human Bird Flu Case 15 Jun 2005
A farm worker in eastern Indonesia has tested positive for bird flu,
marking the country's first human case of the virus that has already
killed at least 54 people elsewhere in Southeast Asia, health officials
in Indonesia said Wednesday.

New Asian Flu Outbreaks in China Raise Fears of a Mutant Virus
11 Jun 2005 Two reported new outbreaks of avian flu among birds in western
China have raised fears that the virus is being spread widely by migrating
birds and mutating rapidly. [Avian flu will finish mutating
and become a full-blown pandemic the day the hearings begin on the 'Downing
Street Minutes' (i.e., the beginning of the end of the Bush regime).
Forty-plus microbiologists dead since 9/11 . . . cui bono?]

As
the 'Downing Street Memo' heats up: WHO urges bird flu vigilance, warns virus unstable
10 Jun 2005 The World Health Organisation urged vigilance against a
deadly strain of bird flu on Friday, warning that the disease scientists
say could cause a global pandemic was moving in new and unpredictable
ways. [Gee, it sure looks like the mysterious deaths of over
forty-plus microbiologists since 9-11 is about to pay off *big time*
for the Bush regime.]

Marburg virus has claimed more than 350 lives
08 Jun 2005 The death toll in the Marburg outbreak in Angola has climbed
past 350 since it broke out last October, with a dramatic rise since
March, the health ministry and the World Health Organisation said on
Tuesday.

Bird
flu: we're all going to die --by Charles Arthur 02 Jun 2005
"But if - when - a flu pandemic comes, and millions of people die
around the world over a period of months, the reality will be one of
two alternatives... Or else governments will
impose a police state that will make all the ID cards and airport checks
look like a tea party. You'd not be allowed to move anywhere
without showing off a vaccination certificate. (Sure, you'd get those
on the black market, and they'd cost more than £300, but would you really
want them? If you're not vaccinated would you really want to travel
among people who might be carriers?)" [a must read]

National exercise prepares for bird flu 03 Jun 2005 --Australia's preparedness
for a bird flu outbreak will be tested in a national exercise between
29 November 29 and 01 December, 2005. Agriculture Minister Warren Truss
and Health Minister Tony Abbott announced that Exercise Eleusis will
involve a hypothetical scenario [we hope] to test how well agriculture
and health departments can work together to identify, contain and 'eradicate'
an animal disease which can be transferred to humans.

China's
bird flu outbreak worse than thought 28 May 2005 New figures
from authorities in China show that an outbreak of the deadly bird flu
in the west of the country is five times bigger than originally thought.
Chinese officials say more than 1,000 migratory birds have been found
dead from the H5N1 virus in a remote area of Qinghai province, which
is on the edge of the Tibetan plateau.

U.S.
Criticized Over Bird Flu Plans 26 May 2005 U.S. efforts to counter
a possible influenza pandemic, including an outbreak of bird flu, are
moving slowly and may be inadequate in an emergency, several witnesses
told lawmakers Thursday.

US
braces for flu pandemic 27 May 2005 US health authorities are
taking urgent precautions against a 'flu pandemic' that experts warned
could erupt at any time and claim tens of thousands of lives.

Bird
flu virus 'close to pandemic' 26 May 2005 Expert
warns estimate of 7.5m global deaths is optimistic --A leading
scientist warned yesterday that the avian flu virus is on the point
of mutating into a pandemic disease and says that current estimates
that such a pandemic could cause 7.5m deaths may understate the threat.

Flu
pandemic looms, experts warn world --Many millions will die
if Southeast Asian bird virus mutates to lethal form, spreads 26
May 2005 A lineup of leading infectious disease experts warned Wednesday
that the world is unprepared for the health and economic consequences
of an outbreak of pandemic influenza that could spring from a lethal
strain of bird flu now ravaging poultry flocks in Southeast Asia.

Bird
flu threat urgent, medical journal says 26 May 2005 --In an
attempt to draw attention to what it believes is an underappreciated
threat, the scientific journal Nature is devoting most of today's issue
to the likelihood that the avian influenza circulating in Southeast
Asia could spawn an international epidemic that would kill millions.

Bird
flu plan calls for airport screening --Hawaii
officials want to test people arriving at Honolulu Airport
25 May 2005 --As nations prepare for a possible avian flu virus pandemic,
state and federal health officials are working on a proposal to screen
travelers who arrive at Honolulu Airport with influenza-like illness.
The state Health Department began developing the proposal a few months
ago with the federal quarantine office [?!?] at the airport,
said Dr. Paul Effler, state epidemiologist.

Bird-flu
crisis plan --City sees lethal bug's arrival as inevitable
22 May 2005 --Convinced it's only a matter of time before a new flu
strain capable of killing millions reaches New York, city health officials
have started drawing up a crisis plan, the Daily News has learned. Infectious-disease
experts at the Health Department have been meeting every two weeks to
prepare a strategy for protecting the city against diseases such as
the Asian bird flu, or H5N1.

Vietnam
Bird Flu Death Toll Reaches 53 20 May 2005 --Bird flu has
killed another person in Vietnam bringing the regional death toll to
53, the World Health Organization said as it continued to warn of a
potential pandemic.

Bird flu death toll up to 37 20 May 2005 --Vietnam's
death toll from bird flu since January 2004 has risen by one to 37,
bringing to 17 the number who have died since a surge in mid-December,
according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Biologists Advocate Study On Marburg Origin [Uh,
Fort Detrick?] 20 May 2005 --The Association of Biologists
of Angola today in Luanda defended the need to carry out a thorough
study to find out the agents which favour the appearance of the haemorrhagic
fever by the Marburg virus in the country, which already claimed 311
deaths in a universe of 337 cases registered.

Bird flu early warning system planned 19 May
2005 --The European Union will tomorrow take another step towards creating
an early warning system to prevent, or at least to limit, an influenza
pandemic by the launch of a new continent-wide monitoring system.

Bird Flu
Could Be Capable of Human-to-Human Transmission 19 May
2005 --Bird flu may be capable of human-to-human transmission, the World
Health Organization is warning. A strain of bird flu in Southeast Asia
is blamed for more than 50 deaths, and so far the virus has only jumped
from animals to humans, but the health agency says "the viruses are
continuing to evolve and pose a continuing and potentially growing pandemic
threat."

Bird
flu virus mutating, posing bigger threat -WHO 19 May 2005
--The spate of human bird flu cases in Vietnam this year suggests the
deadly virus may be mutating in ways that are making it more capable
of being passed between humans, the World Health Organisation said.

Vietnam Bird-Flu Pattern Suggests Virus Is Evolving, WHO Says
18 May 2005 --The pattern of human bird flu infections in Vietnam, the
nation hit hardest by the disease, suggests the H5N1 virus that causes
the illness is evolving in ways that make it more contagious, according
to the World Health Organization.

Marburg milestone shocks Angolans 18 May 2005 --The
world's worst outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus has claimed 311
lives in Angola, a joint statement by Angola's health ministry and the
World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.

Vietnam reports 2 more bird flu patients 17 May 2005
--Two men from Vietnam's northern region have fallen victim of bird
flu virus strain H5N1, Vietnam News on Tuesday quoted a doctor at the
Institute of Tropical Diseases as saying.

Angola: Marburg outbreak not under control 16 May 2005
--As the death toll from the Marburg virus in Angola creeps up to the
300 mark, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed concern
at the current situation and is warning that the outbreak is not yet
over.

Indonesia Finds Bird Flu in Pigs 14 May 2005 Indonesian
researchers have found a strain of bird flu in pigs on the densely populated
island of Java, raising fears the virus could more easily spread to
humans, the government and scientists said Saturday.

New Outbreak of Deadly Ebola Virus Is Feared in Congo Republic
16 May 2005 Nine people have died in the Congo Republic since late April
from what appears to be an outbreak of the Ebola virus, the second episode
of a deadly hemorrhagic fever to strike the region this year, a spokesman
for the World Health Organization said Friday.

Vietnamese
man tests positive to bird flu 13 May 2005 Initial tests by
doctors from the Institute of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi have found
that a man in northern Vietnam has the H5N1 virus, the first human case
in more than three weeks.

Tamil
Nadu orders probe into bird flu virus report 12 May 2005 The
Tamil Nadu government has ordered an inquiry into reports that a strain
of bird flu was found [planted?] in
this south Indian state by an American laboratory. A media report
said two days ago that the Atlanta-based Centre for Disease Control
and Prevention had confirmed that it found the H5N1 bird flu virus in
samples sent by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) when
the disease was raging in many Asian countries last year.

Bird
flu strain found in three Chennai poultry workers 11 May 2005
Scientists from a partner laboratory of the Indian Council of Medical
Research (ICMR) have found the first signs of an Avian influenza virus
in three workers from a poultry farm near Chennai. Only specific protein
signatures of the "highly pathogenic" H5N1 strain were spotted
at ICMR's influenza referral laboratory in Chennai's King Institute
of Preventive Medicine-the disease itself has not been detected.

Marburg
outbreak now devastating all age groups 10 May 2005 The outbreak
of the deadly Marburg haemorrhagic fever sweeping across northern Angola
is now devastating all age groups - and no longer predominantly young
children - say epidemiologists on the ground.

Marburg
Toll in Angola Rises to 327 (Recombinomics Commentary) 09 May
2005 The Marburg toll in Angola rose to 327 on Friday when 8 new cases
were recorded in the Ministry of Health's daily report.

Virus
fear over smuggled bushmeat 08 May 2005 Diseases that pose
a threat to humans, such as Ebola, may be entering UK through the illegal
food trade --Seizures of illegal meat smuggled into the UK from
'high-risk' countries where infectious animal diseases can pose a risk
to human health have spiralled by almost 20 per cent, according to new
figures.

Bird
flu tests out-of-date, may have missed cases 08 May 2005 A diagnostic
test designed by Canadian researchers and used in Vietnam to detect
H5N1 avian flu is out of date, scientists from the National Microbiology
Laboratory admit -- raising the possibility some human cases may have
been dismissed in error.

Less
lethal bird flu more likely to become pandemic 08 May 2005 Vietnamese
doctors are reporting that the mortality rate from avian influenza in
their country has dropped substantially. But while this is good news
for survivors, it could mean the outbreak of bird flu in Southeast Asia
is taking an ominous turn. If a disease quickly kills almost everyone
it infects, it has little chance of spreading very far, according to
international health experts. The less lethal bird flu becomes, they
say, the more likely it is to develop into the global pandemic they
fear, potentially killing tens of millions of people.

Zimbabweans
get Marburg warning 08 May 2005 Zimbabwe is warning its citizens
against travelling to Angola following the outbreak of the Ebola-like
Marburg virus which has claimed 280 lives, the health minister said
on Sunday.

Action
needed over avian flu threat 05 May 2005 Governments around
the world must stop burying their heads in the sand as the threat of
a global avian flu outbreak grows, GP Nigel Higson, writing in the British
Medical Journal, said today.

Indonesia
to vaccinate 5 million children against polio outbreak 06 May
2005 Indonesia was yesterday struggling to contain its first polio outbreak
in a decade. ...The latest reports came as the government announced
plans for a mass immunisation programme in which about 5.2 million children
will be vaccinated against [sic] the virus in a single day.

Indonesia
finds second polio case, more suspected 04 May 2005 Indonesian
health officials said on Wednesday they had found a second case of polio
and feared more would be uncovered on Java island, amid fears of an
outbreak of the deadly disease.

Polio
alarm as virus spreads to Indonesia 04 May 2005 Outbreak a blow
for global eradication programme [But, a financial windfall to Bush's
pharma-terrorists - and more deadly vaccines paid for by U.S. taxpayers]
--The battle to eradicate polio from the globe received another serious
setback yesterday with news that the disease has spread to Indonesia
as well as Yemen, both of which had been polio-free for nearly 10 years.
[Yeah, until the U.S. showed up to 'help' after the tsunami.]

Marburg
kills 280 03 May 2005 The death toll from the outbreak of the
Ebola-like Marburg virus in Angola has reached 280, most of whom succumbed
to the disease in the northern Uige province, the health ministry and
the World Health Organisation said late on Monday.

Polio
Detected in Indonesia, Indicating It Crossed an Ocean 02 May
2005 A case of polio has been detected in Indonesia [Gee, right after
the U.S. military showed up to 'help,' in the aftermath of the tsunami.
Holy coincidence, Batman! (But, not at all unexpected...)], World
Health Organization officials said today. The virus, found in a village
in Java, is most closely related to a strain that was found
in Saudi Arabiain December, they said, and the most likely
explanation is that it was brought back either by an Indonesian working
there or by a pilgrim [?!?] who went to Mecca in January.
[Yeah, the pilgrim from Fort Detrick.]

Mutated
virus raises bird-flu danger level 03 May 2005 Deadly bird flu
is mutating to spread from person to person, bringing a disastrous global
pandemic closer, experts fear. The bird flu virus - codenamed H5NI -
has crossed the first two barriers, and experts fear it is now about
to breach the third.

Avian
flu pandemic could be massive disaster – and few are noticing
01 May 2005 by Tom Saler "Experts are unsure if the bird flu virus
will mutate enough to facilitate easy person-to-person transmission.
...According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, even
a 'medium-level' pandemic in the United States could infect about one-third
of the population and cause up to 200,000 deaths. If that same infection
rate were applied globally, roughly 2 billion people would fall ill;
assuming a mortality rate of just 1% (down from the current 67%), that
translates to 20 million fatalities."

Nation
'prepared' for flu pandemic 02 May 2005 Preparations for any
potential flu pandemic were not perfect but the federal government was
doing all it could, Health Minister Tony Abbott said today. Speaking
at an Communicable Diseases Control Conference in Sydney, Mr Abbott
said the next flu pandemic could be a "worldwide biological version
of the Indian Ocean tsunami".

Bird
flu mutates and now more infectious 01 May 2005 Deadly bird
flu is mutating to spread from person to person, bringing a disastrous
global pandemic closer, experts fear. Evidence from South-east Asia
suggests that the virus, which could kill tens of millions of people
worldwide, is becoming less virulent, but at the same time more infectious
to people.

*****

Bird
flu may spread in Samarinda 30 Apr 2005 Samarinda, East Kalimantan:
Poultry breeders have to be more vigilant over possible outbreaks of
bird flu, a senior official has warned. The warning was issued after
30 chickens were found dead recently in Sidomulya subdistrict, Samarinda.

Outbreak
of Viral Haemorrhagic Fever: Marburg Virus 29 Apr 2005 The Public
Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is monitoring an outbreak of Marburg,
a viral haemorrhagic fever disease, in Angola. ... A suspected case
of Marburg virus in a patient in the Democratic Republic of Congo is
currently under investigation.

Vietnam
expert warns bird flu may break out again 28 Apr 2005 There
was likely to be another full-blown outbreak of bird flu this year in
Vietnam, where 36 people have died from the disease since late 2003,
a health expert warned in state media Thursday.

Experts:
Smallpox could be sent in mail 26 Apr 2005 The anthrax letter
attacks in 2001 are not the first time an infectious agent has been
spread through the mail. A recent article in a scientific journal describes
two outbreaks of smallpox in 1901 that were attributed to infected letters,
and bioweapon experts said it is possible terrorists could spread the
deadly disease in this manner today.

Holy
Fox guarding the henhouse, Batman! U.S.
Company Wants to Help Fight Deadly Marburg Virus 26 Apr 2005
Luanda - A United States of America firm, GenoMed, expressed today its
interest in helping Angola to fight [spread?] the heamorrhagic
fever of Marburg virus, mostly hitting the northern Uige province, the
company's chairman said today.

Bird
flu looking more like a pandemic 23 Apr 2005 Public health officials
in Vietnam fear the South Asian outbreak of bird flu is becoming less
virulent and, thus, more likely to spawn a pandemic.

In
Vietnam, A Dark Side To Good News On Bird Flu 23 Apr 2005 More
than a year after avian influenza emerged in East Asia, killing more
than two-thirds of the people with confirmed cases, Vietnamese doctors
are reporting that the mortality rate in their country has dropped substantially.
This news could mean the outbreak of bird flu in Southeast Asia is taking
an ominous turn. The less lethal bird flu becomes, international health
experts say, the more likely it is to develop into the global pandemic
they fear, potentially killing tens of millions of people.

Angola
at Critical Stage in Marburg Battle -WHO 23 Apr 2005 Angola
is at a critical stage in its fight against an outbreak of the deadly
Marburg virus and must step up its drive to bring the disease under
control, the U.N. World Health Organization (WHO) said Saturday.

All
samples of killer flu virus outside USA are now found[What
about the samples *inside* the US? We have
a stark-raving serial terrorist (Bush) running amok - we need to find
and destroy the US samples before the Bush regime spreads bioterror,
as they did in October 2001 with the Fort Detrick anthrax!] 20 Apr
2005 All samples of the killer influenza virus sent outside the United
States have been destroyed except for one in
Lebanon, the U.N. health agency said Wednesday. The sample
that had gone missing in Beirut "was found
at the airport," [?!? LOL!] said Maria Cheng, spokeswoman
for the World Health Organization.

More
bird flu cases in Vietnam, H5N1 strain 18 Apr 2005 Vietnamese
authorities say that a 21-year-old woman and two other patients from
northern Vietnam are infected with bird flu (H5N1). The H5N1 strain
is the more deadly one.

Experts
still baffled by bird flu 18 Apr 2005 The bird flu virus which
has killed 36 people in Vietnam may not be contained until 2007 because
the way it is spreading still baffles experts, officials said on Monday.

Marburg
toll up to 235 17 Apr 2005 Luanda - The death toll from the
Marburg virus epidemic in Angola rose to 235 on Sunday with about 500
people under surveillance after coming in contact with the Ebola-like
virus, the health ministry and the World Health Organisation said.

Mutated
avian flu may kill millions 17 April 2005 --The threat of a
killer flu pandemic is greater than ever because of the spread of the
bird flu virus in south-east Asia, the World Health Organisation has
warned. The WHO said avian influenza was still spreading across south-east
Asia despite efforts to block it, and there was more than a 50 per cent
probability it would become a global pandemic that could kill millions
of people.

Saudi
Arabia, Israel, U.S. Have Missing Vials of Pandemic Flu 16 Apr
2005 Most of the samples of a deadly flu virus sent to laboratories
around the world by Meridian Bioscience have been destroyed, health
officials said yesterday. Bermuda, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France,
Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Lebanon, South Korea, Mexico, Singapore and
Taiwan confirmed that they had neutralized all their samples, along
with a newly identified U.S. military lab in
Britain, WHO said... Israel, Japan, Saudi Arabia and the
United States were the only countries still tracing samples, said Klaus
Stohr of the World Health Organization.

Deadly
flu virus unaccounted for in Lebanon 16 Apr 2005 Beirut: Samples
of a deadly flu virus sent by the College of American Pathologists to
more than 3,700 laboratories around the world appear to have gone missing
on their way to Lebanon and Mexico, according to the World Health Organization
on Friday.

Samples
of pandemic flu virus sent to Lebanon, Mexico and Chile missing: WHO
15 Apr 2005 Three of the vials of pandemic flu never reached their destinations
and are still missing, a UN official says. Klaus Stohr, influenza chief
for the World Health Organization, said late Friday that vials of H2N2
virus shipped to certain labs in Lebanon, Mexico and Chile could not
be accounted for. [Note: The Washington Post reported
on 16 April "Officials also determined that samples sent to labs
in Lebanon, Chile and Mexico that never arrived had either been secured
or already destroyed."]

Bird
flu outbreak leads to fears of pandemic16 Apr 2005 The threat
of a killer flu pandemic is greater than ever because of the spread
of the bird flu virus in south-east Asia, the World Health Organisation
said yesterday.

New
Plague Vaccine Agreement Signed 15 Apr 2005 A joint, multi-nation
project arrangement between the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the
Department of National Defence of Canada, and the Secretary of State
for Defense of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
was announced today for the cooperative development of a vaccine to
protect against plague. Under this agreement, the three nations will
work together to develop and produce a plague vaccine that will ultimately
be licensed for human use.

Feds at Loss on How Flu Strain Got to Labs 14 Apr 2005
Federal officials are still at a loss to explain how a potentially deadly
strain of influenza could be sent to more than 4,000 labs around the
world. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is operating under
the presumption that the H2N2 strain was purposefully
included in the panels designed to test the labs' proficiency
in identifying viruses. [Only a gullible *twit* with narrow vision
and a brain the size of a lima bean would, by now, when all the pieces
of the puzzle are nearly assembled, all the Neo-conmen's ducks are in
a row - would *not* suspect the US government's complicity in fomenting
bioterror! Every piece of legislation spewed by the GOP-controlled congress
and Hitler-incarnate himself (that would be *Bush*) have buried in bills
submerged in Orwellian monikers, deep in crevices that the Penta-Post
dare not cover - full authority to commence quarantines, force inoculations,
imprison citizens in internment camps, etc. Hell, the Bush regime is
*dying* for it. 70 million+ deaths solves all of the Bush regime's problems
(just like their 9/11 attacks paved the way for the illegal invasion
of Iraq); they can then seize the last of the world's resources and
divvy it up between themselves. In the meanwhile, the Halliburton whores
can continue to get rich by building more prisons and internment camps,
to house future malcontents. As for me... "We want either a hammer or
a fire, to break the spell or dissolve the ice." -- artisan radical
freethinker, George Jacob Holyoake, Reasoner V (1848): 2. --Lori
Price]

Asian Lab Worker Opened Flu Vial: Report 14 Apr 2005
Hong Kong media is reporting a lab worker in that city opened vials
containing a fatal flu strain before health experts worldwide were warned
to destroy the sample.

Killer flu samples shipped via FedEx, DHL 14 Apr 2005
Every day, deadly germs are shipped across the country and around the
globe, right alongside the books, gourmet foods and birthday presents
sent through FedEx and similar couriers.

Flu Strain Samples Remain at Large --Health Officials
Race to Tighten Rules [Oops! I think the horse has left the barn on
that one.] 14 Apr 2005 At least four countries and more than 1,500 U.S.
laboratories reported they had destroyed all their samples of a dangerous
flu virus that had been shipped around the world, but thousands of others
remained unaccounted for yesterday as health authorities in 18 countries
intensified efforts to prevent a deadly outbreak. [$5.6
billion was allocated in May 2004 for Project BioShield . . . useless is as useles does. --Lori Price]

U.S. Seeks Cause of Flu Virus Mix-up 14 Apr 2005 U.S.
health officials were still trying to determine Thursday how a lethal
flu virus had been 'mistakenly' [LOL!] shipped to thousands of laboratories
around the world. Meanwhile, health officials in 18 countries continued
to destroy the virus, which had fueled a 1957-58 pandemic that killed
between 1 million and 4 million people worldwide, including 70,000 people
in the United States.

Local Hospitals Receive A Deadly Flu Virus 14 Apr 2005
At least four hospitals, including the Ohio Valley Medical Center and
Wheeling Hospital, accidentally received a deadly flu virus from 1957.
The Hospitals were among nearly five thousand labs in 18 countries to
get the mistaken shipments.

FDA Had Slammed Company That Shipped Flu 14 Apr 2005
A company that shipped samples of a deadly flu virus to thousands of
labs in testing kits was criticized by the government in 2001 for alleged
lax controls that led to a product recall.

Killer flu 'unwisely' shipped to labs 14 Apr 2005 Scientists
are frantically trying to locate and destroy a deadly strain of flu
"unwisely" shipped to 3,700 laboratories worldwide. The Washington Post
said the problem arose when Meridian Bioscience Inc. of Cincinnati sent
a panel of H2N2 virus samples to about 3,700 laboratories, to be tested
as part of routine quality-control certification conducted by the College
of American Pathologists. ['Unwisely.' Does that imply an element of
'decision-making,' in the decision to ship the flu pandemic to the labs?]

Labs Urged to Destroy Pandemic Flu Strain 12 Apr 2005
Thousands of scientists were scrambling Tuesday at the urging of global
health authorities to destroy vials of a pandemic flu strain sent to
labs in 18 countries as part of routine testing. The rush, urged by
the World Health Organization, was sparked by a slim, but real, risk
that the samples, could spark a global flu epidemic. The vials of virus
sent by a U.S. company went to nearly 5,000 labs, mostly in the United
States, officials said.

Company Thought Flu Virus Was 'Innocuous' --The company
at the center of distress over its shipment of samples of a killer flu
virus to thousands of labs apparently wasn't even aware it had sent
such a deadly virus. The College of American Pathologists, which helps
labs do proficiency testing, had asked Meridian Bioscience Inc. in suburban
Cincinnati to send test kits of germs to about 4,700 labs - mostly in
the United States, but also in 17 other countries. [Insert *bleeping
morons* comment here.]

How
"Socialist" Medical Lab in Canada Saved the World from a New Flu Pandemic
--A Sickening Error --by Dave Lindorff "It's enough to make you sick
isn't it? Some $40 billion spent on 'Homeland Security' in 2004 and
another $50 billion going into the same sinkhole in 2005, with billions
of those dollars specifically targeting 'bio terror,' and a mistake
(or stupid decision) by a biological lab made last fall had a deadly
flu virus capable of creating a global pandemic getting mailed out to
several thousand unsuspecting testing labs... And how was this accidental
terror 'device' detected? Not by the alert folks at Tom Ridge's or Mike
Chertoff's Homeland Security Department, but by an alert technician
working for the 'socialist health care system' in Manitoba, Canada,
who tested the virus in the kit and determined that it was the same
strain of flu virus that caused a worldwide flu pandemic in 1957 and
who immediately alerted the World Health Organization and the U.S. Center
for Disease Control."

71% of ducks in southern Vietnam infected with bird flu
13 Apr 2005 Initial testing showed that 71 percent of ducks and 21.4
percent of chickens in Vietnam's 11 southern localities in the Mekong
Delta are infected with bird flu virus strain H5. Up to 80 percent of
2,000 samples taken from ducks raised in Can Tho city alone, which is
home to some 1.5 million poultry, were tested positive to H5... citing
results by the country's Regional Veterinarian Centeras.

Legislators hear about possibility of a major flu outbreak
12 Apr 2005 It is not a question of whether a major flu pandemic like
the three that killed millions of people in the 1900s will surface,
but when it will strike, public health experts warned at a State House
forum (Boston) yesterday.

Nobel scientist warns on bird flu 13 Apr 2005 Avian
flu - caught directly from birds, and which kills in seven cases out
of 10 - could suddenly sweep through the human population, killing 70
million people according to World Health Organisation estimates, a Nobel
laureate warned yesterday.

EU mulls bird flu pandemic fund 13 Apr 2005 The European
Union should be able to dip into a 1 billion euro (680,000 million pound)
disaster fund to buy emergency vaccines and anti-viral drugs if there
were bird flu pandemic, the EU executive Commission says.

Indonesia detects bird flu virus in pigs 11 Apr 2005
The Compas newspaper in Indonesia on April 10 reported that the country
has detected the bird flu virus in pigs. This is a new development concerning
bird flu in Indonesia as the avian virus has traditionally been found
only in poultry.

Fear bio-terrorists may spread plague --Diplomats
pull out of Angola, ravaged by Ebola-like Marburg 11 Apr 2005
While the death toll continues to rise in Angola from an outbreak of
the deadly Ebola-like Marburg disease, there are intelligence reports
that 'Islamic terrorists' [Bush terrorists] might deliberately infect
themselves to spread the plague to the West, according to a report in
the premium, online, intelligence newsletter Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
Information collected on the disease is behind a decision by a number
of diplomatic delegations to pull out of the country, according to G2
Bulletin.

Toll from Marburg virus nears 200 11 Apr 2005 The
death toll in Angola from the world's deadliest outbreak of the Ebola-like
Marburg virus has inched towards the 200 mark with nine more deaths,
according to the health ministry and the UN World Health Organisation.
"As of noon, the total number of cases nationwide is 218 and 193 people
have died," a joint statement said.

Teams Back In Panicked Virus Zone 10 Apr 2005
The World Health Organization has resumed operations in a western Angolan
province hit by a deadly Ebola-like virus, after suspending work last
week when residents attacked its teams, the WHO said Sunday. Residents
in Uige province had feared the WHO teams were spreading — instead
of helping contain — the rare Marburg virus, which has killed
184 people out of a total 200 people infected, WHO's spokesman in Angola
said.

Marburg team assaulted in Angola, WHO halts campaign
10 Apr 2005 Members of the World Health Organization were assaulted
in Uige, Angola by residents. The residents feared the team may be spreading
the Marburg virus. Marburg virus was first recognized in 1967, when
outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever occurred simultaneously in [US bioterror?]
laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany and in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
(now Serbia).

Angola Med-Aid Workers Attacked 10 Apr 2005 The World
Health Organization has halted a campaign against a Marburg virus outbreak
in Angola after residents assaulted its teams in apparent fear that
they could be spreading the deadly infection. The medical
team's vehicles were set upon Thursday in the Uige district of northwestern
Angola, the outbreak's epicenter, the WHO said on its Web site.

Cambodia confirms third bird flu death 10 Apr 2005
Cambodia has confirmed its third fatality from the deadly bird flu virus,
with an eight-year-old girl becoming the latest victim to die in the
kingdom.

Attacks briefly halt WHO campaign in Angola
10 Apr 2005 World Health Organisation (WHO) teams fighting [fomenting?] an outbreak of Marburg virus in Angola were forced
to temporarily suspend work in one area after scared residents stoned
their vehicles, officials say.

To Contain Virus in Angola, Group Wants Hospital Closed
10 Apr 2005 An international medical charity battling a hemorrhagic
fever that so far has killed 181 Angolans has urged the government to
close the regional hospital here, at the center of the outbreak, saying
the medical center itself is a source of the deadly infection.
Doctors Without Borders, the global relief organization that runs an
isolation ward at the hospital for victims of the deadly fever, Marburg
virus, told Angolan officials on Friday that the hospital should be
closed if the rapidly spreading epidemic was to be contained.

Marburg virus death toll hits 180 08 Apr 2005
2005 cases have been reported -- The World Health Organization is investigating
an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in northwestern Angola, it said Friday.

Marburg spreads as death toll hits 174 08 Apr 2005
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday called for stepping up
measures in Angola to halt the further spread of the deadly Marburg
virus, which has killed 174 people mainly in the north of the country.

CDC
Moving to Double Quarantine Stations 07 Apr 2005 CDC officials
told lawmakers Wednesday that they are moving to more than double the
number of quarantine stations used to evaluate
and detain travelers from overseas who enter the country
ill with potentially dangerous contagious illnesses. The agency currently
operates 11 of the stations near major ports of entry but expects to
have 18 operational by the end of 2005 and eventually expand
the number to 25, they said.

Delta
Handing Over Passenger Lists to CDC 07 Apr 2005 Although privacy
experts worry about the government gathering personal information on
airline travelers, Delta Airlines (DAL) is handing over electronic lists
of passengers from some flights to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention [sic].

Delta
giving passenger lists to government to prevent spread of diseases
06 Apr 2005 Delta Air Lines agreed to give the government electronic
lists of passengers on some flights - not to help track down terrorists,
but to try to head off the spread of deadly infectious diseases. The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [sic] told a congressional
panel Wednesday that the lists will allow health officials to more
quickly notify and advise travellers who might have been exposed to
illnesses such as dengue, flu, plague, SARS or biological agents. [?!?]
...Last week Dictator George W. Bush signed an executive order authorizing
the government to quarantine people to deal with any outbreak
of new strains of flu, including bird flu.

WHO
Expert: Bird Flu Strains Could Combine 06 Apr 2005 Two strains
of bird flu in Asia may combine to create a highly lethal and easily
transmissible virus, a U.N. health official warned Wednesday, amid widespread
fears that the disease could cause the next human pandemic.

Vietnamese
doctor dies of unidentified disease 05 Apr 2005 A doctor from
Vietnam's northern Quang Ninh province has died from acute pneumonia
caused by an unidentified disease, although several treatment procedures
including those for bird flu and SARS patients were used.

Doctors
investigate 'flu-like symptoms' in "TOPOFF 3" terror drill--Biggest
ever terror drill in United States begins 05 Apr 2005 The largest
anti-terror drill ever undertaken in the United States started on Monday
with police officers investigating a fake car accident on a college
campus and health officials on the lookout for a mock biological attack.
Reporters, briefed by officials as though a real attack were happening,
were told that a phone tip led officers to a motor vehicle accident
where car registrations did not match the vehicles. Meanwhile, doctors
were expected to try to connect the incident to a fake patient who had
been admitted to a hospital Sunday night with "flu-like symptoms." The
$16 million, weeklong drill is named "TOPOFF 3" for top state and national
officials. In addition to the New Jersey attack, it is to include a
fake [we hope] chemical weapons attack in New London, Connecticut, starting
later Monday.

Two
States Are 'Attacked' in a Major Terrorism Drill 05 Apr 2005
Hundreds of actors writhed in simulated pain in Connecticut after staged
terrorist attacks on Monday, and thousands more went to New Jersey hospitals
complaining of mysterious flulike symptoms,
as the Department of Homeland Security began the largest terrorism drill
ever conducted in the United States.

North
Korean bird flu outbreak not the feared strain 05 Apr 2005 An
outbreak of bird flu on three large poultry farms in North Korea has
been tentatively identified as the H7 strain of the virus - not the
H5N1 strain that has been killing people and poultry across east Asia
for more than a year. But UN officials have revealed to New Scientist
that the evidence for this is only indirect.

N
Korean bird flu 'different' 05 Apr 2005 A strain of bird flu
infecting poultry in North Korea is different from that which killed
scores of people in other parts of Asia, a UN expert has said. Hans
Wagner, an official for the Food and Agriculture Organization, said
the birds were infected with the H7 strain.

Bird
flu strain detected in North Korea "first for Asia" 05 Apr 2005
A strain of bird flu previously undetected in Asia has been found in
North Korea, a top U.N. expert said on Tuesday. Hans Wagner, a senior
official with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), told
Reuters Television in Beijing after a week-long visit to North Korea
the strain was H7.

New
bird flu case reported in Vietnam 04 Apr 2005 Vietnamese authorities
on Monday confirmed another human bird flu case, but said the patient
in central Vietnam was recovering from the disease which has killed
at least 48 people in the region.

Angola
Marburg death toll climbs 03 Apr 2005 The death toll in Angola
from an outbreak of the rare Marburg virus has risen sharply to 146
people, the country's health ministry has said. The outbreak, which
began last October in Uige province, is the most serious ever recorded
of the virus, a fast-spreading haemorrhagic fever.

Is
Marburg Virus in Angola a Recombinant?* 02 Apr 2005 (Recombinomics)
"Comments by WHO on the recent Marburg outbreak in Angola, cited
some historical information
of Marburg that does not match the current data from Angola. The Marburg
virus is acting much more like Ebola than with Marburg associated characteristics
seen in prior outbreaks. Although both viruses are closely related Filovirdae,
they are readily distinguishable. Initial data on the isolates from
Angola indicated that they were not Ebola. This was confirmed by sequence
data showing that the Marburg was in the samples from Angola."
[*Recombinant
DNAis DNA that has been created artificially.
DNA from two or more sources is incorporated into a single recombinant
molecule.]

Flu
Pandemic Coming, U.S. Not Prepared 01 Apr 2005 Immediate action
is needed to prepare the United States for a deadly pandemic of influenza,
the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
is telling policymakers.

Hong
Kong Stadium may be used as clinic if bird flu hits 01 Apr 2005
Hong Kong Stadium could be turned into a huge outpatient clinic in the
event of a major outbreak of bird flu, health authorities said. The
40,000-seat stadium in Causeway Bay is an option because it could house
hundreds of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel in one location.

*****

Bird
flu could put Britain in quarantine, warns scientist 27 Mar
2005 Offices and schools across Britain could be closed to protect workers
if bird flu arrives, the Ministry of Defence's chief scientist has warned.
Professor Roy Anderson, a leading infectious diseases expert, said politicians
will face difficult decisions about how far to close down Britain if
it is struck by a highly contagious form of the disease.

Cirebon
city locked down over bird flu outbreak 31 Mar 2005 Following
the uncontrolled spread of bird flu, West Java authorities have stopped
all poultry traffic into the area to prevent the problem from getting
worse after the disease hit poultry farms in the province, an official
said on Wednesday. The isolation of Cirebon, which has been declared
an epidemic area of bird flu in West Java, is expected to prevent a
further spread of the disease, which has also hit several other regencies
in Central Java.

Bird
flu spreading fast in Asia 30 Mar 2005 South Korea has sent
a message to rival North Korea offering to help it contain its first
acknowledged outbreak of bird flu. The South's Yonhap news agency said
North Korean authorities were struggling to control the outbreak, and
the disease was spreading quickly to provinces without adequate quarantine
controls.

CDC
sending team to Angola virus outbreak 29 Mar 2005 The Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention plans to send a team to the Republic
of Angola to help control [spread?] what appears to be one of the worst
outbreaks of the Marburg virus ever reported, United Press International
has learned.

Ebola-like
virus kills 122 in Angola 29 Mar 2005 The toll from the Ebola-like
Marburg virus in Angola rose with the death of a baby to 122, just one
fatality short of the most serious outbreak recorded anywhere, a health
ministry spokesman said yesterday.

Emergency
services plan for 750,000 deaths in flu pandemic 27 Mar 2005
Mortuaries and emergency services are to be put on alert and told to
prepare for up to three-quarters of a million deaths from a bird flu
pandemic, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. Emergency planners have
begun to look for sites for special mortuaries, each capable of storing
1,000 bodies, and the Home Office is to hold an exercise this summer
to practise coping with mass fatalities.
The instruction, to go out from the Civil Contingencies Secretariat,
the Cabinet Office body in charge of emergencies, explodes the Government's
public position that the pandemic could be expected to kill only "around
50,000" people in Britain.

Killer
flu hits North Korea 28 Mar 2005 North Korea yesterday acknowledged
an outbreak of bird flu for the first time, saying hundreds of thousands
of chickens were killed to prevent its spread, and that the disease
wasn’t passed on to humans.

One
killed by avian flu 26 Mar 2005 HANOI —Three more cases of avian
flu were reported yesterday including one fatality in the northern and
central regions.

Ebola-like
virus deaths rise in Angola, travel warning issued 27 Mar 2005
Another young woman died of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in Angola,
officials said, as the death toll in the deadly outbreak rose to almost
equal the most serious outbreak ever recorded. Some 121 people died
since the haemorrhagic virus first broke out in the northern town of
Uige in October, while five more people have been hospitalised, bringing
the toll of sick to 132.

SARS
may spread in air, new studies warn 25 Mar 2005 New research
suggests the SARS virus, which killed 800 people after emerging in China
in 2003, may spread through the air, and not just through human contact,
making it more dangerous than previously thought.

Two
New Bird Flu Cases Found in Vietnam, One Dead 25 Mar 2005 Two
more Vietnamese have caught bird flu, one of whom who has died, local
health officials said, as the World Health Organization met with the
government to discuss reports of a flu-like illness in central Vietnam.

US
starts bird flu vaccine test in humans 23 Mar 2005 The US National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said Wednesday
it has started human tests of a vaccine against H5N1 bird flu in efforts
to prepare to respond to [create?] a possible bird flu pandemic.

Vietnam
Flu Outbreak Sparks Fresh Concerns 24 Mar 2005 Health experts
are rushing to investigate reports of a widespread flu outbreak in central
Vietnam. The reports come just two weeks after a five-year-old boy in
the same area was found to have avian flu.

Influenza
vaccine uses insect cells to speed development 21 Mar 2005 Using
a strategy involving a genetically modified baculovirus and caterpillar
cells scientists from Protein Sciences Corporation have been able to
speed up a key step in the development of an experimental cell-based
influenza vaccine. They report their findings today at the 2005 American
Society for Microbiology Biodefense Research Meeting.

Vietnam
Flu Outbreak Sparks Fresh Concerns 24 Mar 2005 Health experts
are rushing to investigate reports of a widespread flu outbreak in central
Vietnam. The reports come just two weeks after a five-year-old boy in
the same area was found to have avian flu.

Bird
flu spreading in Makassar, C. Java 24 Mar 2005 In the Central
Java town of Boyolali, thousands of quails have reportedly died in Klego
district over the last 10 days due to a suspected outbreak of bird flu.

Spread
of Deadly Flu Virus Imminent? 23 Mar 2005 Clouds of uncertainty
are gathering over whether this coming winter will bring with it the
deadly Avian Flu Virus which could claim lives if serious preventative
measures are not taken.

Myanmar
Asked to Check Bird Flu Report - FAO 23 Mar 2005 The United
Nations food agency has asked Myanmar authorities to check a report
of a possible outbreak of Asia's deadly bird flu in the military-ruled
country, a U.N. official said on Wednesday.

Angola:
Health officials identify Marburg virus, 96 dead 23 Mar 2005
A deadly hemorrhagic fever which has claimed the lives of 96 people,
mainly children, in Angola's northern Uige province has been identified
as the rare Marburg virus, officials from the Ministry of Health and
World Health Organisation (WHO) said late on Tuesday. The illness was
first spotted in Uige and is from the same family as the deadly Ebola
virus.

Rare
virus blamed for 96 deaths 23 Mar 2005 An illness that had killed
nearly 100 people in northern Angola was identified today as the rare
Marburg virus, which is from the same family as the deadly Ebola disease,
state and UN officials said. Described as "very virulent" and "very
contagious" and transmitted through bodily fluids, the haemorrhagic
fever threatens to spread from the northern Uige province to other parts
of the country.

Bird
flu epidemic could kill as many as 750,000 in Britain: estimate
22 Mar 2005 Hundreds of thousands of people may die and one quarter
of the work force could be absent if Britain were hit by a bird flu
pandemic, a senior government official said. "It may be somewhere between
20,000 and 750,000 extra deaths and it may be 25 percent of the population
off work," the government official, speaking on a non-attributable basis,
told a conference in London.

Vietnamese
man suspected to contract bird flu 23 Mar 2005 A middle-aged
man from Vietnam's central Quang Binh province has been hospitalized
for being suspected of contracting bird flu virus strain H5N1, according
to local newspaper Youth on Wednesday.

Vietnamese
commune under scrutiny over suspected flu epidemic 22 Mar 2005
A Vietnamese commune where a five-year-old boy tested positive to avian
flu last week is under scrutiny after local inhabitants reported a flu
epidemic, doctors said. Health authorities were investigating after
a local newspaper said 200 people had flu symptoms at the Chau Hoa commune
in central Quang Binh province, 400 kilometers south of Hanoi.

Expert:
Asia flu cases may be undercounted 21 Mar 2005 The incidence
of a particularly lethal variation of influenza in Southeast Asia is
probably greater than has been reported so far, a flu expert at the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.

Death
of Vietnamese girl attributed to bird flu 21 Mar 2005 A 13-year-old
girl from Vietnam's central Quang Binh province, who died on March 9,
has just been found to contract bird flu virus strain H5N1, local newspaper
Young People reported Monday.

Bird
flu a big security challenge: Rudd 20 Mar 2005 Bird flu was
emerging as a large scale security concern for Australia, opposition
foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd said. ...Health officials are concerned
that avian influenza strain H5N1 could spark a deadly global pandemic
if the virus mutates into a form that spreads easily from person to
person. Mr Rudd, who heads off on a visit to South-East Asia later on
Sunday, said he would be discussing the issue with officials in Thailand
and Cambodia and canvassing the effectiveness of quarantine and border
controls.

EU
official warns of deadly flu pandemic 19 Mar 2005 EU officials
are already preparing for the possibility that a global flu epidemic,
which could cause up to 30 million deaths, might break out in the next
few years, Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection Markos Kyprianou
said during a press conference in Athens yesterday.

Angola:
Death toll from mystery fever rises to 77 18 Mar 2005 The number
of people killed by a mystery illness in Angola's northern Uige province
has risen to 77, health officials said on Friday. The cause of the outbreak,
characterised by fever, coughing and vomiting, sometimes with blood,
is still unknown. But the government is so concerned it has sent blood
samples to the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, the officials
said.

Acute
Hemorrhagic Fever in Angola and Bird Flu Similarities 18 Mar
2005 (Recombinomics) "There are a number of parallels between the
mystery Ebola/dengue hemorrhagic fever-like disease in Angola and bird
flu. Like the hemorrhagic fever disease in Angola, H5N1 in Vietnam began
as a mysterious disease primarily infecting children..."

Vietnam
detects new bird flu patient 18 Mar 2005 Specimens from a five-year-old
boy from Vietnam's central Quang Binh province has just been tested
positive to bird flu virus strain H5N1, raising the total number of
infection in the country to 25 since mid-December 2004, the newspaper
Saigon Liberation reported Friday.

US
plans for plague, flu and nuclear bomb attack 17 Mar 2005 A
nuclear bomb in a big city, plague released into an airport washroom
and food stocks laced with anthrax are three of fifteen doomsday scenarios
inadvertently published by American security chiefs yesterday. One of
the most deadly of the 15 scenarios is a flu pandemic, which begins
in southern China and spreads within months to four leading American
cities, claiming the lives of 87,000 and putting 300,000 in hospital,
the plans estimate.

Vietnam
detects one more suspected bird flu case 17 Mar 2005 A person
from Vietnam's northern Bac Ninh province has just been hospitalized
for being suspected of contracting bird flu virus strain H5N1, according
to local newspaper Pioneer on Thursday.

Bird
flu may have hit N Korea 16 Mar 2005 The World Health Organisation
(WHO) was investigating on Wednesday reports of a bird flu outbreak
last month in North Korea that may have killed thousands of chickens,
a news report said.

South
Korean scientists say kimchi could cure bird flu 15 Mar 2005
An extract of South Korea's famed spicy fermented cabbage dish known
as kimchi could cure bird flu and other chicken diseases, scientists
said. Researchers at Seoul National University said chickens infected
with the deadly bird flu virus began recovering a week after they were
fed with fermented bacilli extracted from kimchi.

WHO
fears bird flu will be the next pandemic 15 Mar 2005 (ABC Radio,
PM) Reporter: David Mark "MARK COLVIN: The Great Flu epidemic
of 1918 killed more people than had died in the entire four years of
the First World War. No other statistic can convey so starkly why health
authorities now are so worried about the potential of avian influenza,
or bird flu. H5N1 is its scientific name, and the World Health Organisation
says it could be the next great pandemic. The virus has killed 46 people
in South East Asia in the past year, but WHO believes it could kill
100-million."

WHO
warns of human bird flu mutation 04 Mar 2005 The World Health
Organisation (WHO) says the bird flu virus may be changing into a form
that humans can pass on. The WHO is worried that bird flu, which has
killed 47 people in Asia, could mutate into an easily spread form that
sparks the next influenza pandemic.

Bird
Flu Clusters May Signal Virus Change - WHO 14 Mar 1005 A cluster
of human bird flu cases among relatives and possibly health workers
in Vietnam may show the virus is changing into
a form that can be passed on by humans, the World Health
Organization said. The WHO is worried that bird flu, which has killed
47 people in Asia, could mutate into an easily spread form that sparks
the next influenza pandemic, killing millions.

Flu
bigger threat than 9/11 13 Mar 2005 Britain's capital city is
"more at risk" from bird flu than a terrorist atrocity on the scale
of the September 11, 2001 attacks on Washington and New York, London
mayor Ken Livingstone said on Sunday. "We're more at risk of dying
from bird flu that we are of being blown up by a terrorist," he
told BBC television.

Bird
flu could kill 2 million Britons 13 Mar 2005 Two million Britons
could die in the bird flu pandemic that experts warn is both imminent
and inevitable, one of the country's leading authorities has told The
Independent on Sunday.

Scientist
attacks UK bird flu preparation 13 Mar 2005 A leading scientist
has attacked the government over its contingency plans to deal with
a human bird flu pandemic, saying over two million Britons could die.
Professor Hugh Pennington, president of the Society for General Microbiology,
told the Independent on Sunday a pandemic was both imminent and inevitable.

Anger
at MSPs' priority for life-saving flu drug 13 Mar 2005 Scottish
ministers and their civil servants are set to be issued with the antiviral
drug that will be used to combat the impending flu pandemic – ahead
of children, pregnant women and the elderly. The Sunday Herald can reveal
that Jack McConnell’s colleagues in the Executive will be among the
first workers providing "essential" services to be protected
from a health threat that could kill up to 50,000 Scots. News of the
special treatment has angered opposition MSPs who believe that politicians
should not be jumping the queue for vital treatments.

Pandemic
fear as bird flu infects nurses 13 Mar 2005 Health experts are
watching the spread of deadly bird flu among humans with increasing
concern after doctors reported a second suspected case yesterday among
medical staff treating a victim. The World Health Organisation (WHO)
has given a warning that the flu, which has killed 47 people in Asia,
could mutate into a form that spreads quickly between humans and trigger
a global pandemic.

Bird
flu epidemic a matter of time, CDC says 12 Mar 2005 Fear-Mongering?
After making predictions using computer models, the Center for Disease
Control warned that an outbreak of bird flu is not a matter of if but
when. Amid rising fears of a spread of bird flu to humans, the Center
for Disease Control yesterday fleshed out plans to battle a potential
flu epidemic that could hospitalize as many as 75,000 people, according
to some estimates.

Vietnam
detects new bird flu patient 09 Mar 2005 A healthy 81-year-old
man from Vietnam's northern Thai Binh province, maternal grandfather
of two bird flu patients, has just been confirmed to contract H5N1,
while the World Health Organization (WHO) found the virus in samples
from seven local people, according to local newspaper Youth Wednesday.

WHO:
7 Vietnamese Patients Have Bird Flu 08 Mar 2005 The World Health
Organization said Tuesday that seven Vietnamese patients who initially
tested negative for bird flu have been found to be carrying the virus
after their samples were retested.

Author
airs conspiracy theory on Im's death --Someone stabbed 72-year-old
retired research Professor Jeong Im multiple times in the Maryland Avenue
parking garage at the University of Missouri-Columbia, put him in the
trunk of his Honda and set the car on fire. A national radio talk-show
guest has theorized the killing was part of a plot to kill off key
microbiologists in the world before unleashing "the
ultimate epidemic." Steve Quayle, a self-published author
and newsletter writer from Bozeman, Mont., told listeners of "Coast
to Coast AM" that Im was the40th microbiologist
to die under suspicious circumstances in four years and was
perhaps among those specializing in vaccines and bio-weapons research.

Simulated
smallpox terror attack conducted in Washington --Former US secretary
of state Madeleine Albright and former French health minister Bernard
Kouchner were among the dignitaries playing the role of president of
their respective countries in an exercise conducted here to explore
how governments around the Atlantic would react to a biological terrorist
attack in the region. An unknown group called the "New
Jihad" [Actually, it will be the Bush-Rove terror team
that attacks. Let us now discuss the... ? 19dead
microbiologists since the (Fort Detrick-generated anthrax) murders
in 2001. What *were-are* they working on???] was scripted as claiming
responsibility for the attack, saying it was revenge for the West's
oppression of Muslim countries... The scenario continued with stock
markets collapsing, and thousands trying to flee cities where the outbreaks
were being reported.

UK
'Societal Disruption' doc: 'mass casualties, maintenance of public order,
role of police and armed forces' Emergency
warning as global flu epidemic fears grow --Planning advice
warns of disastrous effects --UK emergency services have been put on
alert as the World Health Organisation (WHO) warns that a potentially
deadly from of bird flu that affects humans could spark a global epidemic
this winter. An emergency planning document spelling out the disastrous
likely consequences of such an epidemic has already been distributed
to government agencies. ...The UK government believes high levels of
death and illness could lead to public disorder. Quarantine, travel
restrictions and the issuing of face masks are all being considered
as protective measures. Under the heading "Societal
Disruption" the document says the government "needs
to consider maintenance of essential services such as … utilities [and]
communication; management of mass casualties; maintenance of public
order; the role of police and armed forces".

Microbiologist
Death Toll Mounts As Connections To Dyncorp, Hadron, Promis Software
& Disease Research Emerge --A Career In Microbiology Can
Be Harmful to Your Health (Revised/Updated) by Michael Davidson
and Michael C. Ruppert 03 Mar 2002 In the four-month period from Nov.
12 through Feb. 11, seven world-class microbiologists in different parts
of the world were reported dead. Six died of 'unnatural' causes, while
the cause of the seventh's death is questionable. Also on Nov. 12,
DynCorp, a major government contractor for data processing, military
operations and intelligence work, was awarded a $322 million contract
to develop, produce and store vaccines for the Department of Defense.
DynCorp and Hadron, both defense contractors connected to classified
research programs on communicable diseases, have also been linked to
a software program known as PROMIS, which may have helped identify and
target the victims. In the six weeks prior to Nov. 12, two additional
foreign microbiologists were reported dead. Some believe there were
as many as five more microbiologists killed during the period, bringing
the total as high as 14. These two to seven additional deaths, however,
are not the focus of this story. This same period also saw the deaths
of three persons involved in medical research or public health."

Scientists'
deaths are under the microscope by Alanna Mitchell, Simon Cooper
and Carolyn Abraham - compiled by Alanna Mitchell 04 May 2002 "It's
a tale only the best conspiracy theorist could dream up. Eleven microbiologists
mysteriously dead over the span of just five months. Some of them world
leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others the best
in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because of biological
weapons. Still others, experts in the theory of bioterrorism... Suspicious
deaths --The sudden and suspicious deaths of 11 of the world's leading
microbiologists [list]."

The
Very Mysterious Deaths of Five Microbiologists by Ian Gurney
20 Dec 2001 "It is a story worthy of a major conspiracy theory,
the script for a Mel Gibson 'Who dunnit?' action movie, or a blueprint
for a contrived and unbelievable episode of 'The X Files'. ...Over the
past few weeks several world-acclaimed scientific researchers specializing
in infectious diseases and biological agents such as Anthrax, as well
as DNA sequencing, have been found dead or have gone missing."